XI. JAPAN AS A WORLD POWER 146 XII. LEGAL JAPAN 159 XIII. THE NEW WOMAN IN JAPAN 175 XIV. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 191 XV. EDUCATION 209 XVI. ÆSTHETIC JAPAN 222 XVII. DISESTABLISHMENT OF SHINTŌ 237 XVIII. CONFUCIANISM, BUSHIDŌ, BUDDHISM 250 XIX. JAPANESE CHRISTENDOM 262 XX. TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPAN 277 XXI. THE MISSION OF JAPAN 289 THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 305 GREATER JAPAN 329 APPENDIX 343 INDEX 415 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Late Emperor Meiji Tenno _Frontispiece_ Nagasaki Harbor 10 Lighthouse Inland Sea 10 Cotton Mills, Ōsaka 20 First Bank, Tōkyō 38 Baron Shibusawa 42 Group of Country People 46 New Year’s Greeting 64 Garden at Ōji 78 Ōsaka Castle 92 Perry Monument, near Uraga 106 Statesmen of New Japan: Prince Sanjō and Count Katsu 116 Departments of State: Navy, Agriculture and Commerce, Justice, Foreign Affairs 126 Naval Leaders of Japan: Admiral Enomoto, Admiral Kabayama 136 Distinguished Land Commanders: General Baron Kuroki, General Baron Oku, General Baron Nodzu 146 Military Leaders of New Japan: Field-Marshal Ōyama and Field-Marshal Yamagata 150 Statesmen of New Japan: Count Ōkuma, Marquis Inouye, Count Itagaki, Marquis Matsukata 156 Court Buildings, Tōkyō 164 The Mint, Ōsaka 164 Statesmen of New Japan: Ōkubo, Saigō, Kido, and Prince Iwakura 172 H. I. M. the Empress 188 H. I. M. the Crown Prince 196 Imperial University Buildings, Tōkyō 210 Educators and Scientists of Japan: Baron Ishiguro, Viscount Mori, Mr. Fukuzawa, Dr. Kitasato 216 Painting by Ho-Itsu: View of Fuji-San 224 Painting by Yasunobu: Heron and Lotus 230 Group of Pilgrims 252 Buddhist Priests 252 Gospel Ship, “Fukuin Maru” 268 Y. M. C. A. Summer School, Dōshisha, Kyōto 268 Four Gates: Palace, Tōkyō; Palace, Kyōto; Sakurada,Tōkyō; Nijō Castle, Kyōto 282 The Naval Hero of the War, Admiral Togo 306