Chapter I: Front Matter

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MYSTERIOUS JAPAN

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_Books by Julian Street_

ABROAD AT HOME

AFTER THIRTY

AMERICAN ADVENTURES

THE NEED OF CHANGE

THE MOST INTERESTING AMERICAN
(_A close-range study of Theodore Roosevelt_)

PARIS a LA CARTE

SHIP-BORED

WELCOME TO OUR CITY

THE GOLDFISH
(_For Children_)

SUNBEAMS, INC.

MYSTERIOUS JAPAN

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MYSTERIOUS JAPAN

by

JULIAN STREET

With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author and Others

Garden City, N. Y., and Toronto Doubleday, Page & Company 1921

Copyright, 1921, by Julian Street All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1920, 1921, by McClure's Magazine, Incorporated All Rights Reserved

Copyright, 1921, by the Century Company, the Outlook Company, P. F. Collier & Son Company, and the New York Times

Printed at Garden City, N. Y., U. S. A.

First Edition

TO
FRANK A. VANDERLIP

"_To see once is better than
to hear a hundred times_"

--MENCIUS

CONTENTS

PART I

CHAPTER PAGE

I. DISCUSSING CURIOUS TRAITS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN . . 1

II. THE ROAD TO TOKYO . . . . . . . . . 16

III. THE CAPITAL AND COSTUMES . . . . . . . 26

IV. EARTHQUAKES AND BURGLARS . . . . . . . 38

V. INVERSIONS AND THE ORIENTAL MIND . . . . . 48

VI. THE ISLES OF COMPLEXITIES . . . . . . . 63

PART II

VII. THE GENTLEST OF THE GENTLER SEX . . . . . 81

VIII. MORE ABOUT WOMEN . . . . . . . . . 93

IX. THE NATIONAL SPORT . . . . . . . . 103

X. ON SAKe AND ITS EFFECTS . . . . . . . 115

XI. DIET AND DANCING . . . . . . . . . 127

XII. GEISHA PARTIES . . . . . . . . . 137

XIII. THE NIGHTLESS CITY . . . . . . . . 154

XIV. IN A GARDEN . . . . . . . . . . 163

XV. AN EXPLOSIVE PHILOSOPHER . . . . . . . 172

PART III

XVI. GRAND OLD MEN . . . . . . . . . . 183

XVII. RECOLLECTIONS OF VISCOUNT SHIBUSAWA . . . . 201

XVIII. VISCOUNT KANEKO'S MEMORIES OF ROOSEVELT . . . 212

XIX. ARE THE JAPANESE EFFICIENT? . . . . . . 228

XX. JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS . . . . . . 242

XXI. COURTESY AND DIPLOMACY . . . . . . . 258