Excerpt from Natural Resources of Japan (2) The largest lowland (about million acres) is the Tokyo or Kanto (kwanto) Plain. The coastal lowlands rarely extend more than 30 miles inland. 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.
Excerpt from Through Formosa: An Account of Japan's Island Colony His book, let me say at once, does not pretend to be a record of thrilling adventures or of hairbreadth escapes; nor does it pretend to be a standard work on Formosa. It is the work of a passer-by, who does not profess to have an intimate and exhaustive knowledge of the country such as can be attained only after many years' residence; it is an account of a journey through a beautiful and fascinating, but little-known, island to which foreigners are not usually encouraged to go, an introduction to its romantic history, to its rich natural resources, and to the unhappy story of the fortunes of the brown people who dwell upon its jungle hills. Thanks to the courtesy of the Government of Formosa I was privileged, during my visit to the island, to look through many windows which ordin arily would have been closed to the traveller, and by the light of my knowledge of other Eastern colonies I have tried to show how in thirty years the Japanese have succeeded, m'arvellously succeeded, in develop ing economically what was, when they first took possession of it, little more than a wilderness; and to show too how they have failed, for all their good intentions, in their attempt to settle and administer the native tribes, made intractable by centuries of tyranny and oppression. 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.
Excerpt from Wind and Seismic Effects: Proceedings of the 14th Joint Panel Conference of the U. S. Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources The Fourteenth Joint Meeting of the u.s. Japan panet on wind and Seismic Effects was heid in washington, D.C., United States from May 17 through 20, 1982. This publication, the proceedings of the Joint Meeting, inc1udes the program, list of members, formal resotutions, technical papers. 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.
Excerpt from Report on the Second Year's Progress of the Survey of the Oil Lands of Japan During the season of field work the absences from duty were only some thirteen days by Mr. Yamauchi, owing to weak eyes; and five working days by me. It will be seen that (excepting Messrs. Misawa, Adachi and my self) the attendance ia Yedo has been nearly six-sevenths of the whole time comparing favourably with former years, and (i believe) with other offices; but still leaving much to be desired. In addition, the assis tants through the greater part of the spring season commonly stayed in the office about an hour beyond the stated office hours in order to receive a lesson from me in Physics, and, besides, worked much additional time in the evening in writing up their notes of the same. Of the time spent by myself in office I keptarecord (though it can hardly be admitted that the work of a manager can be estimated so strictly by the hour, since often the best of such work is done in moments of apparent idleness), and find on counting up the number ot'honrs while in Yedo and while at office work in the country that there were 101 hours or three weeks and two days, or a daily average of about 40 minutes of such additional work, to which may be added about four months of extra work done in travelling, according to the rule of five leagues a day during inspection tours (like my long trip), and ten leagues during journeys without inspection by the way (as the trip to Tootoomi was reckoned); making, then, nearly five months of extra labour done within the year. 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.
Excerpt from Wind and Seismic Effects: Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Panel Conference of the U. S.-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources; May 20-23, 1975, Tokyo, Japan The Seventh Joint Meeting of the u.s. Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects was held in Tokyo, Japan on May 20-23, 1975. This panel is one of the twenty panels in the u.s. Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (ujnr). The ujnr.was established in 1964 by the u.s. Japan Cabinet-level Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs. The purpose of the ujnr is to exchange scientific and technological information which will be mutually bene ficial to the economics and welfare of both countries. Accordingly, the purpose of the annual joint meeting of this panel is to exchange technical information on the latest re search and development activities within governmental agencies of both countries in the area of wind and seismic effects. 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.
