| Show n r r I t t b t t mW et fl n e v H v V V t V v fl t 1 I II II I 1 I JAPAN J j Her Country and Her People By Professor Richard RIC Utah Heaver 1 u J 1 1 now considerable Interest l lImong among Imong the people of oC Utah Ulah cen centers centers cenera era In Japan Jal This is largely i J due no 10 doubt to the tue fact that thal a n company of oC Mor Mormon mon missionaries headed by J Apostle Heber hieber J Grant arant will wi leave leao on n a tour to hat that nation nUon In Iii view of oC the lie fact there for fi that tha tour our people lucre hero will wi soon Boon have havo ha 0 immediate Interests there and also In ha further consideration of oC this tact fact that Kent rally the people here know but bul lit l the la o concerning Japan n her country unit people it may ia be well 11 to a make ml ko known some 81 things s to be Je found Cound there ont gIve 1 some sOle Idea Ilen of oC the extent of oC the country what her people do how they hey worship what may Iny be Jo seen there hero and the i there prevailing Wh n a we wo speak sleak pek of oC Japan we wo speak cheek of ot more moro than a n thou thousand tho sand Islands Iland and islets IMs and yet el all al thes tiie combined are very Yer small when compared with wih Japans nearest neigh neighbor lelh neighbor bor or the tho lie great Chinese Emple I but Jut not riot notwithstanding withstanding Its Is diminutive size sio It Is he If yet et one of ot the most interesting coun cun countrIes trIes in the world both as regards Its features If its Is inhabitants Its It history alli the present plent transitional stat staf cf ff f its Is people I I It has luas no n doubt been eln observed by stu students ItU dents of or that so many non European nations nto have had hod first to lose loseth I th thy r political po Jk a I Independence and then reh accept thus the culture of their c cr r Japan stands alone as al an anex anex ex cx Pika to this rule rul she has striven h Ir hi etly sty and ond With zeal to adopt the of at the this West Veat with wih Its Is manifold irit lri Ilal ial and moral conquests She lies has hR nj n j European Ideas Iden IdeR nut not as OS 01 sub ct but knit In the thc character of oC free dIe dis Ils v v This has hias hal not been boon accomplished t either through the th lie supremacy of o a 11 for lor foreign lort eign t religion which might have havo driven dren thum luem together r like Ik a n Hock loek of oC sheep into Inte the tie fold of ot their but hut from froma fruna trl a I spontaneity It that has luas been L ln the wonder I and atud admiration uC of all civilization Whatever shall shah be bl thus the success of oC the tho experiment Japan Is 18 now nol regarded e as os belonging In iii all nIh ni semblances IS of ot scion scientific scon tithe knowledge and anti Industrial progress to the enmity comity of those thlE nations amongst whom linn line been heen developed 11 the tile od odAr Aryan Ar 11 or Western e terl culture Japan has a n wonderful geographical position She Sho lies leI midway between San SRn and London T anti Is IR often oren spoken of o as a her huer name hams Implies the lie Umpire 1 of ot tint thi Rising Sun Slit She HII com corn completes the lie zone ZOI of ot lands brought with withIn In the sphere of ot western Iliac Ideas In this UIA n U rib rn hemisphere hem The Rist Emt through Japan Tapan is enabled to Join hands with wih the West WIIt cut Ily By B Ben Il she commands all al the lending leadIng toward Malaysia Australia Ind the tue lands bordering on the lie Indian Ocean Olan and ami Pacific sea boards hoards nail and tho the number of o liar her Inhabitants Is sufficiently large and Industrious In to enable her liar rapidly to acquire an Rn Important position JOlon in the general movements of ot commerce and modern history Titus Thus Thul we wo find Ind n a land hand and anil a people of oC more thin Ih n passing In Interest interest terest to whom our brethren will whIt wi KO go 10 to lell lel the of oC great Joy jo that have hac ben been revealed to mankind In these e lit lat latter litter ter tel days dl and anti there Is II I no fear er of oC the re cc results stilts The This Japanese archipelago forms a 1 perfectly limited 1 geographical whole at lt least if I the Island of or Sakhalin token taken br 1 Russia In In exchange for Cor tile the tie be Included Sakhalin coast constitutes I tuLsa the thc northern section of ot a long lon chain of oC highlands continued through 11 Hondo honda The Hondo and unc form torm three thre great curves awl and nun border what has hAi been heln con considered cn the deepest of oC oceanic waters vater faten Japan proper consists of four large Inlands I JalI viz Iz or Ind of ot the Barbarians Hondo honda or the Your Four Provinces or the Nine inie Ine Districts besides a vast ut number of or M VV small Islands to the coast coant The ThO native geographers speak of oC Islands The fhe main Island Is 19 Hondo or that Is IB Chief Lund Land called also Il o or Central Land 1111 but Jut U is II designated Iesh rated In III by Jy tile tho name or but lut this name annie meaning this Rising Sun SUI belongs more mor properly to the lie whole archipelago and Is IH nl al always tI III ways WR 8 so fO used uld by II the lie natives lallos It I is Ii the hue same sanie Mie as ni the Chinese from where hiero Marco Molco Polo derives I Uninformed by hy the Malays into and by Lj Europeans Into II to Japan This flue word wart Japan Is IR not merely non mou hut but absolutely Identical with the this na native n native tive term t rr meaning the tho Land Landof of or the lie Rising BluIng l Sun from nit nil sun lun and poll on origin As to the discovery and history of oC Japan nearly nastily all nih al are ar no 10 doubt doubt faunl familiar fali liar lar how In Ill II 1513 1511 Portuguese navigators tori were driven by b stress of weather to the island Inland 1 of oC between Japan atol Malacca and antI marriages were con contracted contracted between the this strangers and the th native women how before the this sixteenth closed had brok broken century religious wars en In out out caused raull through the tue disgraceful conduct of ot the tile missionaries who hutch had followed close the lie heels hel of ot the hue early earl discoverers As s a result the Christians tan were werl expelled from tram the coun country cun country try or lr massacred and the ports tilt all 11 lull closed against I except the Dutch who were allowed to retain meager possessions for fer purposes already established on nn eon con condition lon they hwy would spit pl or trample upon tho the cross Even through such euch limited I privileges as U were cere granted them the Dutch grasped opportunities tar for tI study studying stUll lag ing tho natural history of at the country 1111 the manner of u Its Inhabitants and anti wo we WI have Jue therefore th thin the valuable In Information formation thus collected by II b Kampfer and Th early s 11 geographical works of oC the he natives lire are crude un unreliable unreliable H reliable end and very but slurs since the this i scent change of nf heart toward foreign forel n Influences Influence anti modern Inventions the lie natives are ar working liar ha I scientists In III Inthe inthe with wih the exploration of the lie islands Inlands On this the tie I V V the ho Japanese navy na jointly with wih those tholE of oC If other 1 takes taken port part In Itu the tl hit preparation of special charts The Thuc people display u it I very marked fund anti fOi II niece ness 1111 for geographical studies I chit t 11 lee U ails I books hooles maim are ara more mOIo abundant than In 11 Europe The flue Island of oC Ye the northernmost of oC the groups is II characterized by I Ir hr Irregularities II regularities re In Its I relief This Island l IH Is evidently one oue of o the oldest up heaved lands on the globe All Al the cavitIes haw have time to drain except near the lie th coast where n a few fv more recent lakes lakel been 11 found near hear the tile volcanoes Some of oC this the hl high h hest set est mountains are all volcanoes und and Ind rim ril to a heIght ht of nf O fe r recent eruptions from trum any Rn of these oc uc occurred In Iii II n a lii 2 v eruption took tok fn on mount I and the ho adios n h wen wafted by h the to the this the th lie lien neatest lost of oC which Is II 20 miles away aWRY The shortest distance between tn n Y MO nail the Island of ot on thus the south uth Is II eleven miles mie Nippon or Hondo Honda Is I undoubtedly the tius th I to which our brethren will wi first mil Mi Here Is II the lie principal seat sat of oC government The capitol Is 19 tiers here the this leadIng lead I up CIUl the chief market I line tiers Heie lell are found re i e enta lives from almost t all KI countries Here ler education edurn lon thrives end science Is I encouraged aged a The he advanced thought of oC the twentieth twentieth century finds fInd lodgment liars bore hell and anI altogether there ther is II an air eli of refine refinement ment progress pr reli and RII activity that rivals the lie tie larger laler cIties s of our own or any alY other othor country Here Her p l the first that Jo Joseph Joseph seph Mph was 8 a 1 Prophet of or lOll will 1 I b x borne bore Here this the test feet of ot the lie first Idl specially IAly railed and amid Ant set net anart to 10 open on this land lant to the he reception of the work of ot If greet great Iret redemption tion loIn will wi first auth the thus soil coll oi of ot this his wonderful country This Thula hll Island which In is II the largest large contains much that Is II of ut interest to I tourist SlId Mud l scientists fhe The mountains are a Cr not nut very 11 er high though h some Collie attain a height of ot Cr set feet Ct The Theare Thier fh are 8 In the main volcanoes Here Her Is in l the tile highlands Art An Al old alt local proverb u 0 0 RH H Speak not hint lol of ot beauty till ti ill you I have IJ seen cacti Nikko Owing to Its IH Imly Unity t y to tl this lila Is ludl vhs vis visited during the tim Hummer There fliers exists a I peculiar legend con ng an 11 ancient I bud ul huh ci temple teni Id C which here luere This Thil temple staple U is I said Mid saidU lid to tu U have been l n erected by II Shodo ln who from rota his hil earliest years devoted himself lt to the th worship of the liv gods gol He lie le passed 1 lila his hi time I building ha lId iii g toy tny pagodas PM gielas In iii their honor thereby receiving the thet title t I tIe of temple I builder er When Ilm twenty ty years 11 of legs age Ilu he hue II secretly left heft Ie home and alid retired to the this cave lao of the Thousand Handed landed at itt t One winters night he lie hI had hal a it I dream of I u a I reat mountain that wee was WIM to tn ti the thus L the summit of u O which lay n Il sword mer 0 lr ir three litter feet long When h lus awoke be lice II set out olt for fu or this lilace dace and amid notwithstanding standing this the deep 1551 snow he lie hI reached the mountain where he lie lp lived nil 11 austere AUlter life fur for or three hires yearn being Mif 1 fed feil tel by I Ii su so IU agencies ng to Id 14 j ru he his h remained for five hs years ear all ad administering ministering as 11 a novice In II the temples tellI After this Ills he lie returned to the th mountain from the summit of nt which he hI beheld four clouds doul of different colors straight up Into the sky 1 He lie I at II one ome set off Itt ot to reach them ills prayer look hook nm he his hl carried In Imi II a bundle hunI on an Ids hll back His II progress Irr was wu by h b u it I broad brat and Ind Impetuous river he his hI fell on 01 his hid hil knees and amid 1111 prayed when there lists ap tip appeared RJ peered ll on Wi 01 the I opposite tank hank a gigantic being 1 with wih skulls strung around his neck aeck 1 This Flue to help him him sayIng which lie he flung across the thie ln a 1 pair Ir of at green awl ld blue bil I snakes where whereupon whereupon upon the th river was waw wal spanned by I a long longbridge longbrIdge I bridge like a I rainbow Over this the tho saint crossed Then he h huh another snottier vision In which he ht wits was Wil Informed that the tho mountain to 10 the thui north was 8 this the Mountain of ot the Four Pour Ioda the Ihl abode of nf the Ihl Dragon the th Bird the White Tiger and An the 01 Warrior Warior He lie II reached hed the this summit and liars here her he hit found were PI the four clouds ris na rising ril lag ing up OIl him At this place he lie h built bui a 1 shrine for tho th Image InaI of the th anti and anI I named It I the Monastery of oC the Four 0 u V V temple staple still stands l and andIs Is very euy 1 beautiful Among the noted volcanoes mention mentioned ed 1 III In some of If our OUI school Id 11 I geographies me orE arid and The flue former attains a R height of lt set fuet and Is one ann of this the th highest and alI most ac MC active tive te volcanoes on the this Islands In lii II 1733 1731 13 there was wan all n a most terrific eruption from rain raint this t ii Is mountain is I Ii Thu I n g CI was covered by hy Ii lava such and pumice and villages WHO were destroyed etl and thousand of o lives hives 1 lost host Places which had loud to tItle tills time been beell highly cultivated were made mip barren streams of melted aid tail rock riek rushed down dow ii tilE the t Its mountain mountainside Ii alit side alii In Sm destroyed u a famous primeval forest of extent Day DA was wan changed Into night through the be dense denseness ness nE of oC the escaping vapor and gases lIa of famous old olti volcano Is II about Jut a 1 mile In circumference ence clues Hut nut this the typical volcano of u tho the pelago i IC 11 the peered Mired red Zeal Yama of ot the land and the Hie unset most l otIl hallowed object In this the entire inN The name hams In lit taken from the th profusion ol of lowering fut full which coy rov rover er Ir the thur slopes sieges Almost every species of oC m may v be e hj on un Yama from rota the rich semitropical at lit atIn In Its It ba baIC o fi to the thc rico of ai 41 arctic re t region gion gum on IOn Its It I rounded crest eret It exceeds by 3 oo f feet t nil all other volcanoes within the thu horizon of ot IU its field It Is III of an au al alm a m mist st round form Corm Its II bass base having no vi nit it A ell clr of oC about bollt ninny ninety miles to tradition this huge ma mUll mass was f during a single night In Inthe Inthe the th 2 Zi old era Pill when lake Illva Ulva was w also 10 formed farmed iI tak take place lIlac al II long Jong Intervals the last lut record recorded ed Pd having III In 1717 which continued for two Months buryIng burring In RetIed ashes to tn a fl th of o hn feet whole village villages and anti darkening this the sky lie for tor sixty sity muss miles around Since then other villas hav huv an III Id and ani the th yearly earh to lo WO lave iRve mule mahe ma their visits vIsIt to the tho holy mount Those who ho nick make the lie ascent of this thi arr lrI d mountain are clothed In while antI and on un thIs the cruller crater drink first of or tho thi gulden spring anti and then than of ot the u H spring which at a n given I IllI en Ii they th ring chug their bells Still and fall In 0 honor nf at the tue sun SUtI Return lIla 1111 t If tae tw foot foul of the lie mount they the get their stamped by h the lie Ih and these t robes now a precious heir heirloom loom The ascent I of this his t mountain moon Itt iii In Is I made In hours hour Sir Ruther Rutherford nut her forth ford Alcock kock In Ill KOO 1500 was the tIle first Kuro Uuro Iaan to make the th ascent The 1111 system to which FuzI belongs continues the south and forum the of oC Idzu This In Is Ina Isa a watering place Illace IIa Hot Hilt HM art hire here awl and Is l a 1 favorite retort resort ant the town of lit it It In is I 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