how it should be executed in the most perfect manner: the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the publick!"
C. P.
Raleigh, N. C.
December 1, 1911.
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CONTENTS
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| I. |
Japan: The Land of Upside Down |
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A Land of Contradictions |
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Music as an Example |
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Marriage and the Home Life |
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Patriarchal Ideas Still Dominant. |
| II. |
Snapshots of Japanese Life and Philosophy |
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What a Japanese City Is Like |
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Strange Clothing of the Japanese |
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Who Ever Saw So Many Babies? |
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Alphonse and Gaston Outdone |
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The Grace of the Little Women |
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How the Old Japan and the Old South Were Alike |
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A "Moral Distinction" Between Producers and Non-Producers. |
| III. |
Japanese Farming and Farmer Folk |
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Japanese Farm Children Getting More Schooling than American Farm Children |
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No Illiteracy in the New Japan |
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Where Five Acres Is a Large Farm |
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How Iowa Might Feed the Whole United States |
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Farming Without Horses or Oxen |
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What the Japanese Farmers Raise |
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The Crime of Soil-waste |
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All Work Done by Hand |
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Cooperative Credit Societies a Success |
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Farm Houses Grouped in Villages |
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"A Seller of the Ancestral Land" |
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The Japanese Love of the Beautiful a Suggestion for America. |
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| IV. |
"Welfare Work" in Japanese Factories |
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Manufacturing Bound to Increase |
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Tariff Legislation Unfair to Agriculture |
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A Visit to a Progressive Japanese Factory |
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How the Factory Operatives Are Looked After |
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Stricter Factory Legislation Coming. |
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| V. |
Does Japanese Competition Menace the White Man's Trade |
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A Study of Japanese Industrial Conditions |
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Japanese Labor Cheap but Inefficient |
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Actual Cost of Output Little Cheaper than in America |
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Laborers in a State {xii} of Deplorable Inexperience |
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Illustrations of Japanese Inefficiency |
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Some Current Misconceptions Corrected |
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Labor Wage Has Increased 40 Per Cent, in Eight Years |
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The Burden of Taxation |
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High Tariff Will Decrease Japan's Export Trade |
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Subsidy Policy Destroying Individual Initiative |
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Japanese Competition Not a Serious Menace to the White Man. |
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| VI. |
Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity in Japan |
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The Artistic Touch of the Japanese |
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Religion Without Morals |
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Buddhism in Fact vs. Buddhism Idealized by Arnold |
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Official Notices Prohibiting Christianity |
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Christianity "Puts Too High an Estimate on Woman" |
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The Worth of the Individual Not Recognized |
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The Elemental Significance of Japan's Awakening |
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A New Type of Civilization. |
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| VII. |
Korea: "The Land of the Morning Calm" |
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I Have Become a Contemporary of David |
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The Fascination of a Primitive City |
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Some Odd Korean Customs |
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A True Romance and an Odd One |
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Many Faces Marked by Smallpox |
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A Typical Monarchy of Ancient Asia- |
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The Honorable Mr. Yang-ban |
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Six Men to Carry Fifty Dollars' Worth of Money |
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Japanese Annexation |
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Splendid Work of Foreign Missionaries. |
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