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THE GREAT EMPIRE OF THE PACIFIC
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Called into world life by an American Commodore,
seising with avidity upon many new things for its
advancement from western civilization, protesting
undying friendship for the United States, but strug­
gling with seemingly irreconcilable differences, devel­
oped by marvelous leaps into one of the five greatest
naval and military powers o f the world, and now to
become a signatory partner with .us and with Britain,
DO YOU KNOW
DO YOU KNOW
W bat our **Gentlemen*! Agreement** wfth Japan b?
U hat is the attitude of Canada. Australia, and N ew Zealand toward
Jap an ?
H ow much new territory Japan has annexed in the past 26 yean?
ac age of Japan s
civilization” and how little the owes to Europe?
How extenti/eiy the trade of the Pacific b in Japanese hands?
Wny the United States is Japan*» best customer? '
llo w murb of the world’s silk is produced by Japan?
DO YOU KNOW
That Japan, which had no dealings with the outside world before 1853,
is now one of the world's great commercial powers, with the fourth
greatest merchant fleet and a foreign trade of $2,000,000,000 a year?
t f '*» much Chinese territory b under Japanese "influence” ?
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That Japan, which had no banks, no financial system, no credit, in 1868,
now has a strong and elaborate financial system with great banks
and stock exchanges, holds a billion dollars worth of gold and has
such credit abroad that she has been able to borrow over $750,000,000
from foreigners?
DO YOU KNOW
VO YOU KNOW
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France, and Italy in preserving “peace on earth good
will toward men,”— it is imperative for every Amer­
ican to know more about this great Ocean Empire
of the East, and to know what has happened In
the Seventy Dazzling Years since Commodore Perry
knocked at the Mikado’s fastdocked door and
summoned Japan to take her place in the family
of nations. Try to answer the following questions:
W hat Japan’s naval strength b ?
duties, of? children to parents in Japan?
W hat are the qualifications to vote in Japan?
i -e r-ic wage earned by Japanese workers?
The cxt*o/ to which modern labor unreal b permeating Japan?1!
W h a t is the real business of the Regent?
W hat restrictive laws has Japan ngnfnst foreigners?
What Japwa*» chief food produet b?
V h o started Japan on the way to become a world power?
About woman’s rights movement in Japan?
W hat are the major forces making for friction between the United
States and Japan?
How big a» army Japan coaid raise on short notice?
W hat influences seek to increase this friction in both countries?
W h * b the family status of a motber*in4aw in Japan?
H o w many Japanese there are in the United States?
H o w rapidly they are increasing?
W hat percentage they form of the population of Hawaii ?
Their number in the Philippines?
H ow the “ Japanese problem ” has influenced legislation in California?
DO YOU KNOW
H o w many years old a Japanese child bom on December 31st b
considered to be on the next day (New Year’s)?
W h y a Japanese woman is very much concerned as to whether her
horoscope casts h e r a»4i cow, rabbit, snake, monkey, or tiger?
W hat you will see checked, instead of hats or coats* in the check
rooms of Japanese re st aurants and theatres?
DO YOU KNOW
To what extent Japanese art has influenced Western art?
H o w far Western education has been adopted in Japan ?
The size o f the average Japanese form, and bow it is cultivated?
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The relatione of America and Japan are deaarfy explained. H er growth in com­
merce and i nfluence since Commodore Ferry*«. meanorable visit is set forth, together
with a striking colored picture o f hie visit I t o tfbe then mysterious land where,
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