(4) History. (4) English History. Roman ” Greek ” (5) Geography. (5) Geography (a little). (6) Mathematics. (6) Arithmetic. Euclid. Algebra. (7) Drawing. (7) Drawing. (8) Gymnastics, Drilling. (8) Gymnastics. Athletic Sports. (9) Singing. (10) Natural History, Physics, Chemistry. (11) Elements of Law. (12) Elements of Political Economy. The aim of the Japanese statesmen has been to produce a fine character residing in a strong body, and a memory stored with knowledge having a direct bearing on the problems of modern life. It seems to me that a nation led by men trained according to the method I have indicated must _ceteris paribus_ be more intelligently governed than one like our own, where the conduct of affairs is entrusted to persons like Mr. Arnold-Forster and Mr. Brodrick, who, after leaving a great Public School, attended Oxford University and obtained their degrees through its Modern History School. I pass from Secondary to Primary education. Guardians of children of school age (_i. e._ over six years of age) are under the obligation of sending them to school to complete at least the ordinary Primary School course. The subjects taught to the Board School boys and girls of Japan are:--Morals, the Japanese language, arithmetic, and gymnastics, and, according to local circumstances, one or more subjects such as drawing, singing, or manual work, and for females sewing. The higher Primary Schools complete the education of the average Japanese of the lower orders. At the higher Primary Schools, the scholar continues to study Morals, the Japanese language and arithmetic, and learns, in addition, Japanese history, geography, the elements of science, and, as optional subjects, agriculture, commerce, manual work and the English language. Drawing, singing and manual work, and for females, sewing, are compulsory. There are also special commercial schools.