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JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC

Japan & the North Pacific.

JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC,
AND
A JAPANESE VIEW OF THE EASTERN QUESTION.

BY
MANJIRO INAGAKI, B.A.
(Cantab)
WITH MAPS
London
T FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
MDCCCXC
TO
JOHN ROBERT SEELEY M.A. Hon. LL.D.
Regius Professor of Modern History Fellow of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge
THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED
IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS KINDNESS AND IN ADMIRATION OF HIS QUALITIES AS A HISTORIAN
BY THE AUTHOR
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PREFACE.

I feel that some explanation is due when aJapanese ventures to address himself toEnglish readers; my plea is that the matterson which I write are of vital importance toEngland as well as to Japan. Though I feelthat my knowledge of English is so imperfectthat many errors of idiom and style and evenof grammar must appear in my pages, yet Ihope that the courtesy which I have everexperienced in this country will be extendedalso to my book.

My aim has been twofold: on the onehand, to arouse my own countrymen to asense of the great part Japan has to play inthe coming century; on the other, to call the10attention of Englishmen to the importantposition my country occupies with regard toBritish interests in the far East.

The first part deals with Japan and thePacific Question: but so closely is the latterbound up with the so-called Eastern Questionthat in the second part I have traced thehistory of th

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