Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Federal Magazine and "the 'All-Red' Mail" December, 1914
During the last fifty years no nation has, perhaps, done so much as Japan to combine some of the best Western ideas with an ancient and highly developed civilisation. The war with Russia gave her an acknowledged position in the East, and her alliance with Great Britain brought her into the ranks of the great powers of the world. Japan entered into the great European conflict from somewhat different motives to those which actuated the European Allies. Japan had no fear of attack. Neither was she concerned in the question of Belgian neutrality; she had, however, her own grievance against Germany and she was also deeply affected by Germany's growing power in the Far East. Japan, therefore, entered -into an alliance with Great Britain in 1905, and with Russia and France in 1907, for the maintenance of mutual interests in Eastern Asia. The part that Japan has played in the great war has been to dissipate Germany's naval strength in the East by the bombardment and seizure of Tsingtau, thus putting an end to direct German rule in China. 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.
