Show I 0 0 O D 0 Q I I r A r t a v Setting Rice In Japan Pr Prepared Dan by the ao So cIet 7 wa hin t on D. D D C. C There Is a marked background of AmerIcan Influence In the rise tit ot Japan one of the most rapid and striking national developments recorded In his his- tory In half hal a century Japans Japan's population population tion has more than doubled her wealth has Increased twenty fold and she has been transformed from nn an almost forgotten forgotten for for- gotten hermit nation Into a world power pow pow- er a lender leader In Industry and commerce commerce com com- merce with an ambition to be second to none In capturing the tho markets of the Ule world For Japans Japan's development there are reasons both Internal and external First and greatest ot of all was the new mind created long ago by the philosophy whIch threw the reactionary reaction reaction- nry ary ConfucIan cult Into comparative shadow In this mental discipline It should be noted that every one without exception exception ex- ex of the fifty fhe creators of the New Japan was was trained and some proved to be past masters Without this element the Japan we now know would not could not have haye been I Introduced In- In from China In the Seven Seyen- Seventeenth century the philosophy of Vang Yang ming In Japanese Jap Jap- anese was developed and taught by books and expounders In fifty different dIfferent dIffer dIffer- ent centers Two hundred and fifty years of peace sufficed for the accumulation of the nations nation's potencIes In m n for emergence when mien the should come During all this period there was unbroken unbroken un- un broken contact with Europe through the Dutch nt at 1 Even the Portuguese anti and Spanish contacts of seventy years with merchants mill mill- tary men en anti and engineers had bad left their I mark on the Japanese language architecture architecture archi- archi music military scIence and I dIetetics Then from the Dutch with their mechanics physicians language I books booles apparatus and hospitals such wonderful results were wrought In art i science Invention and trade In Ideas and commodities Swift through his knowledge of Holland was able to pen his extravaganza Travels Dutch culture had been like seed sown everywhere I A thousand spots o of light foretold the coming dawn of a long bright d day Hundreds of native physicians read the noble Dutch language and In a mens- mens ure practiced European medicine At I Nag Nagasaki Dr Pompe van yan I had establIshed a hospItal and trained physicians while Dutch mechanics i I with the aid of Japanese workmen had built a steam yacht Black Ships From America In a 11 word Japan was as a rIch clover field already from the Occident LIke a steady line ot of bees the Dutch shIps had been bringIng bring bring- Ing the vItalizing Influences for more mor I than two t vo centuries Yet to the tho Jap- Jap Japanese anese the modern revelations on a I large scale were the black ships of the American whalers that gathered In their waters What the islanders learned both from honestly shipwrecked shipwrecked ship ship- wrecked sailors and ond from the vol 01 i walls waifs chiefly mutineers quickened quickened quick quick- ened the national temperament President Fillmore's fleet which was ordered to sail sall for the East In 1852 on the same day that Japans Japan's greatest was born con silted largely ot of store ships which were loaded with American inventions In and products After fter Commodore Perry had bad completed completed com com- his treaty making there was held beld In 1 on the strand at Yokohama Yokohama Yoko- Yoko hama Japans Japan's first industrial exposI- exposI thou tion In 1872 1812 the more ornamental presents were In a storehouse at the place of the last shoguns shogun's shoguns shogun's sho- sho guns gun's banishment The things of use In agriculture and the arts had already already al- al ready been wIdely dIstributed and copIed especially In that new part of the empire called the whIch throughout bears a aery avery very ery American aspect and the reason ot of this Is dear clear A commission ot of scientific rod and practical men sent out from was active In the Island between 1870 1570 and 1880 Even ven more impressive to the stud student nt I ot of Japans Japan's I were the personnel I I and equipment of at least the five of the first American Three besides being mature In experIence had hod been n long before In China Chinn or were men of science and technical ability Dr J. J C. C Hepburn opened a hospital and ury ary and trained the f first t surgeons and physicians and he and S. S R. R n Drown Brown built the bridges the gulf sult between n the two lan Inn I with theft thelI grammars and dic- dic dictionaries They also trained the Ule Intellectuals In- In and Introduced likewise photography and the finer arts The third G. G F. F was amarine a amarIne marIne engineer and master of seven seyen or eight languages For years when the Gospel was still unpalatable he taught the Japanese everything they wished to know Then he organized their university taught them the spirit of occidental law and custom explained explained ex- ex the freedom of the press anti and how church trustees held property He also proposed the great embassy of 4 1872 around the world to study the details of Western civilization hal half the personnel being chosen from hIs pupils Quick to Follow Their Guides Back of all was the nations nation's youth with its vigor Its Innate capacity to select adopt adapt and become adepts Both geologically and In human human hu- hu man history Japan Is the youngest country countr In Asia From 1850 to not a few for for- foreign eign helpers on the soil gave theIr time and talents to aid Japan but after 1870 and until 1 1000 OO and later inter Argonauts from the West came in fleets to cover coer Japan with a golden fleece No fewer than salarIed foreigners experts in every line and field of human endeavor were called out and employed These men started the first railways telegraphs lighthouses navy yards ards foundries mercantile projects mechanical and and agencies Yet the Japanese already had the capacity and ambition The aliens were only the guides helpers and servants An AmerIcan missionary Jonathan Goble invented the sha that has hns rolled round the world Nevertheless the did but teach the rudiments anti and point the way It was the Japanese who made the New Japan When feudalism had been abolished In 1571 and the once despised merchant merchant mer- mer chant was given honor and opportunity opportunity lie he unfolded the pinions of a towerIng ambition and looked abroad to capture the markets of Asia Asla It was like giving wings to a tiger As early as 1860 1800 young mn men had been sent to Holland for naval education tion but It was under British officers that the ImperIal nav navy was reconstructed reconstructed recon recon- while French first and then Germans recreated the mIlItary tem Admiral Togo was for 12 I years rears under British naval Instruction To Americans was given the task of I national education methods of finance being borrowed from Belgium Only the learned Japanese In 1870 could by ear or eye ee read anything higher er than shop accounts or fiction All erudItIon was In the hieroglyphics of China It was said by aliens first tackling the Japanese script and style of speech that there were seven distinct dIstinct dIs- dIs languages In one At times Japanese Jap- Jap anese gentlemen In conversation seemed to have graduated from an old old- time school for the deaf for they used their fingers and the palms of their hands most IndustrIously to show just what Ideographs they were using or orthe the tho meaning they wished to come convey TheIr New Education A reform In this direction meant the uplift of humanity and the manifold increase ase of the nations nation's resources through productive individual abIlIty These facts seem to explain the national national na- na renaissance better than official statistics Imposing as these figures of millions are or even the present day reports of trained alien journalists The new education uplifted a whole nation Almost every village and hamlet hamlet ham ham- let pulses with new life lite The victories both over China and Russia an In the worlds world's markets were won first In Japans Japan's publIc schools In l 10 0 O these numbered t I with teach teach- ers era and pupils un almost unparalleled unparalleled un- un paralleled record even In th the OccIdent In all this there Is a living parable In Old Japan man was too much hike Uko a beast while the beast was too much like Uke a man Herein ore are the parent facts For ages Jes and even until today to- to day Japan has suffered from too much hand labor She needs more live JIve ani- ani at the thc plow pion and In the fields the I I streets and the mills while she needy to uplift her men and women What has really made the New Japan is thIs emergence In social life liCe of th th- s J spirit o 0 p personality and ot of Individuality The old WU Sua communal The new national life Ufe is 15 based In the main on the assertion of the inherent powers of Ue the InU yet In unity ot of pIC e With will the We commonwealth |