. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. onable People—Over-Legislation about Shipping—Usurpation of the Shoguns—Growth of the Daimiates—Questionings—Japanese Whigs and Tories—Dread of Socialism—The Clan Unit—Moral Progress—Revisal of Treaties. INCE returning to England I have very oftenbeen asked in this country—what do you thinkof Japan? The question has been put withsuch varying motives, and by so many differentclasses of people, that I now find it exceedinglydifficult to attempt any answer at all. How-ever, I shall put down here, fairly andreasonably I trust, some conc
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. onable People—Over-Legislation about Shipping—Usurpation of the Shoguns—Growth of the Daimiates—Questionings—Japanese Whigs and Tories—Dread of Socialism—The Clan Unit—Moral Progress—Revisal of Treaties. INCE returning to England I have very oftenbeen asked in this country—what do you thinkof Japan? The question has been put withsuch varying motives, and by so many differentclasses of people, that I now find it exceedinglydifficult to attempt any answer at all. How-ever, I shall put down here, fairly andreasonably I trust, some conclusions to whichI have come, not altogether hastily andwithout , with its thirty-seven millions, must soon be-come a most important factor in the history of the and other causes have long kept down thenatural growth of population. Those causes are nowceasing to act to an appreciable extent, and so I thinkthe growth of population in Japan will now be physical stamina of the people will also speedily. 292 Nine Years in Nipon. improve. Smallpox has been almost completely stampedout. Cholera is understood now by the authorities, andhas been coped with pretty efficiently. Chest diseasesare being better guarded against. The Japanese havealways been given to cleanliness under peculiarly in-effective conditions. The genuine principles of ^nedicalcleanliness are being studied and followed now amongstthe better classes. Buddhism has long restricted the dietof the people to vegetables,—fish and wine being winkedat,—but that system has no longer a strong hold upon theintelligence of the community. Milk is now greatlyappreciated everywhere for sick people and is becoming a common article of food, and Bafe tea is an article known and appreciated in all householdsthroughout the treaty ports and larger towns. Cod-liveroil is manufactured and consumed in large clothes—shirts, comforters and blanke
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