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A Handbook of Modern Japan

Chapter 13: BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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The work surveys Japan’s physical geography, economy, transport, daily life, customs, and national character, then reviews both older and modern history alongside constitutional, local, and legal institutions. It examines religion, philosophy, literature, education, aesthetics, social change, and the role of women, and it assesses Japan’s international position including wartime and expansion topics. The author presents social transformation as largely government-directed, with conservative popular attitudes contrasted against progressive official reforms. Organized into concise chapters with maps, illustrations, and bibliographies, the volume functions as a compact handbook offering an overview of contemporary conditions and references for further study.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Rein’s “Japan” is valuable on these topics; “Advance Japan” has a good chapter on “Diet, Dress, and Manners” (iv.); “A Japanese Interior,” by Miss Alice M. Bacon, gives most interesting glimpses of the inner life of the people; Murray’s “Story of Japan,” chap. ii.; Knapp’s “Feudal and Modern Japan,” vol. i. chap. v. and vol. ii. chap. iv.; and “Japan in History, Folklore, and Art” (Griffis), are useful; Finck in his “Lotos-Time in Japan,” also gives interesting glimpses of these topics; and Miss Bacon’s “Japanese Girls and Women” (revised and illustrated edition) is invaluable concerning family life. Miss Hartshorne’s “Japan and her People” is well worth reading on these subjects. “Japanese Life in Town and Country” (Knox), “Dai Nippon” (Dyer), and “Every Day Japan” (Lloyd) are also valuable.