Finally, one significant phase of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance is the fact that, to all intents and purposes, it includes the United States of America, which may be called a “silent partner.” It is well known that the convention was shown at Washington before it was promulgated, and that it was heartily approved by our government. Practically, therefore, it is, in a very broad sense, an Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Certainly our interests in the Far East have been and are identical with those of Great Britain and Japan; and all our “moral influence,” at least, should be exerted toward the purposes of that convention. Indeed, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance should mean the union of Great Britain and the United States with Japan to maintain in the Orient the “open door,” not merely of trade and commerce, but of all social, intellectual, moral, and religious reforms; the open door, not of material civilization only, but also of the gospel of Jesus Christ.[114] BIBLIOGRAPHY. “The Real Japan” (Norman), chaps. v., xiii.; “Advance Japan” (Morris), chap. xiii.; “The New Far East” (Diosy), especially chap. vii.; “Heroic Japan” (Eastlake and Yamada); “The Awakening of the East” (Leroy-Beaulieu), chap. ix; and “Japan in Transition” (Ransome), chap. xv.; “Japan Today” (Scherer), chap. xi.; “The Real Triumph of Japan” (Seaman); “Every Day Japan” (Lloyd); “Dai Nippon” (Dyer), chaps. vi., xvi., and xvii.; and “The Imperial Japanese Navy” (Janes). CHAPTER XII LEGAL JAPAN OUTLINE OF TOPICS: Justice in Old Japan; new codes; list of same; crimes and punishments; convicts; police; arrest; trials; courts; judiciary; prisons; legalized prostitution; crusade against social evil; rescue homes, etc.—Registration.—Taxation.—Foreigners under Japanese law; restrictions upon them.—Leasing land.—Mines.—Railways.—Banking, insurance, etc.; kinds of corporations; foreign associations; Japanese corporations.—Foreigners in business.—Bibliography.