A Handbook of Modern Japan

Chapter 47: 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.

The references for this chapter are in general the same as those for the preceding chapter, except that, in place of the special papers on Shintō, should be substituted special papers on Confucianism by Knox and Haga in Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xx. pp. 1-192; on Buddhism, by Lloyd in Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxii. pp. 337-506, and in “Every Day Japan”; and Nitobe’s “Bushidō, the Soul of Japan.”

“Japan To-day” (Scherer) contains an interesting chapter (vi.) of Buddhist sermons: see also Mitford’s “Tales of Old Japan.”

Dr. Knox, who is an authority on Confucianism, has given in his “Japanese Life in Town and Country” a few chapters (vi.-xi.) of interest in this connection; and he has also issued (1907) a valuable book, entitled “The Development of Religion in Japan.” Lloyd’s “Creed of Half Japan” is very suggestive.