 | William Elliot Griffis - Literary Criticism - 1915 - 364 pages
...apparatus, her request was unanimously refused. In 1874 Japan "lacked the indispensable features of a modern State," as Marquis Ito said of Korea, in order to...Asiatic Society Of Japan," Vol. XLII, pp. Ixviii, Ixix. 1914. her people had been spilled by Russians more times than one, and also to substantiate her right... | |
 | Sir Stephen King-Hall - China - 1924 - 422 pages
...interesting parallel to the eighteenth century in England. Between the two stories there will be one curious difference, however, for in Japan there was...in the all but unbroken uniformity of the practice amongst the highest officials of starting life in comparative poverty and dying millionaires." Though... | |
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Between the two stories there will be this curious difference, however, for in Japan there was little if any sentiment against dishonesty in public life. . . . With such a public sentiment, the result both of feudal tradition and Chinese philosophy, there... 