A Handbook of Modern Japan

Chapter 45: 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.

See Rein’s “Japan,” Peery’s “Gist of Japan,” Cary’s “Japan and its Regeneration,” Knapp’s “Feudal and Modern Japan,” and Lowell’s “Soul of the Far East,” pp. 162-193. But especially valuable are “The Religions of Japan” (Griffis), “The Development of Religion in Japan” (Knox), “Occult Japan” (Lowell), Hearn’s works, and papers by Sir Ernest Satow and Dr. Florenz in Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vols. ii., iii. (App.), vii., ix., xxvii. These references are, of course, on the general subject of Shintō rather than the special topic of this chapter.

Aston’s “Shintō: The Way of the Gods” (1905) is, of course, most excellent. Hozumi’s “Ancestor-Worship and Japanese Law” is very valuable.