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TULSA DAILY WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, .1922
Americans Must
Know More About Janan
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Th pride of Japoms naval architects. Reported to have been built largely by the pennies of millions of Japanese children and the voluntary sacrifice of Japanese laborers lapun li
permitted to keep this battlwhip when the plan of naval reduction is earned Into effect.
THE GREAT EMPIRE OF THE PACIFIC
Called into world life by an American Commodore,
seizing with avidity upon many new things for its
advancement from western civilization, protesting
undying friendship for the United States, but strug
gling with seemingly irreconcilable differences, devel
oped by marvelous leaps into one of the five greatest
naval and military powers of the world, and now to
become a signatory partner with us and with Britain,
France, and Italy in preserving "peace on earth good
will tovard men," it is imperative for every Amer
ican to know more about this great Ocean Empire
of the East, and to know what has happened in
the Seventy Dazzling Years since Commodore Perry
knocked at the Mikado's fast-locked door and
summoned Japan to take her place in the family
of nations. Try to answer the following questions:
DO YOU KNOW
What our "Gentlemen'i Agreement" with Jipan it?
What it the attitude of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand toward
Japan?
How, much new territory Japan has annexed in the past 26 years?
How much Chinese territory it under Japanese "influence"?
' The age of Japan's "civilization" and how little she owes to Europe?
How extensively the trade of the Pacific is in Japanese hands?
Why the United States is Japan's best customer?
How much of the world's silk is produced by Japan?
DO YOU KNOW
What are the duties of children to parents in Japan? ,
The average wage earned by Japanese workers?
The extent to which modern labor unrest is permeating Japan?.
What Japan's chief food product is?
jjWhat is the family status of a mother-in-law in Japan?
Who started Japan on the way to become a world' power?
How big an army Japan could raise on short notice?
DO YOU KjVOW
That Japan, which had no dealings with the outside world before 1853,
is now one of the world's great commercial powers, with the fourth
greatest merchant fleet and a foreign trade of S2.000.000.000 a year?
That Japan, which had nd banks no financial system, no credit, in 1868,
now has a strong and elaborate financial system with great hanks
and stock exchanges, holds a billion dollars worth of gold and has
iticn credit abroad that she has been able to Borrow over $750,000,000
from foreigners?
DO YOU KNOW
What Japan's naval strength is?
What are the qualifications to vote in Japan?
What is the real business of the Regent?
What restrictive laws has Japan against foreigners? "
About woman's rights movement in Japan?
What are the major forces making for friction between the United
States and Japan?
What influences seek to increase this friction in both countries?
DO YOU KNOW
How many Japanese there are in the United States?
How rapidly they are Increasing?
What percentage they form of the population of Hawaii ?
Their number in the Philippines?
How the "Japanese problem" has influenced legislation in California?
DO YOU KNOW
How many years old a Japanese child horn on December 31st is
considered to be on the next day (New Year's)?
Why a.Japancfe woman is very much concerned ns to whether her
horoscope casts her us a cow, rabbit, snake, monkey, or liger?
What you will see checked, instead of tints or coats, in the check
rooms of Japanese restaurants and theatres? '
DO YOU KNOW
To what extent Japanese art has influenced Western art?
How far Western education has been adopted in Japan?
The size of the average Japanese farm, and how it is cultivated?
In This Week's Special Literary Digest, a Most Comprehensive Magazine Encyclopedia of Modern Japan,
' NOW ON THE NEWSSTANDS, All These Questions and Many More Are Answered . ,
The relations of America and Japan are clearly explained. ' Her growth In com
merce and influence since Commodore Perry's memorable visit is set forth, together
with a striking colored picture of his visit to the then mysterious land where,
at one time,-strangers had been admitted only to an enclosure near the shore and
kept blindfolded until they were returned to their ships. Full information is
provided concerning Japan's Army and Navy, her Government, parties, and
politics. There are illuminative articles on Japanese literature, art, poetry, and
drama, her life and customs, her psychology, religion, science, and history, and
the condition of women, of labor, and of childhood, with scores of other subjects that
make this number indispensable to all who wish to be correctly informed regarding Japan,
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