Author: W. Petrie Watson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9781330074633

Excerpt from The Future of Japan: With a Survey of Present Conditions It is perhaps difficult to state an adequate excuse for any addition to the literature that has been made about Japan in recent years, and especially, of course, within the past year or two. A secondary excuse of every book is, however, its purpose, and with a statement of the purpose of the present volume the author leaves the question of a more adequate justification in abeyance That purpose is mainly to render a psychological and philosophical account - or, perhaps, a broadly planned synthetic account - of historical and contemporary Japan, and to exhibit that degree of correlation which is to be discovered - or which, being discovered, may be usefully stated - between the phenomena of Japanese history and European, and between contemporary Japanese and European conditions. The age is pre-eminently a psychological age, and the scrutiny of nations, of men, of phenomena, social and political, is mainly psychological. That historical method which is a display of facts, or a description of characters and events, sometimes seems almost an anachronism; that other method, which is an analysis of events and a criticism of characters, is no longer approved as it once was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.