The Japanese Nation: Its Land, Its People, and Its Life

Inazo Nitobe

15 chapters · about 6 h

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The opening

CHAPTER I THE EAST AND THE WEST

THE EAST AND THE WEST

AS facilities of intercommunication, and therefore points of contact, have of late rapidly increased, and as the East and the West can now see and hear each other at close range on matters of business interests, instead of merely exchanging courtesies at a polite distance, occasions have likewise more frequently arisen for misunderstanding and for doubt. The reasons for this seem manifest, and among them is Imperialism, the overpowering trend of the last century, which, causing the stronger nations to overleap their respective territorial bounds, has brought them face to face with one another in unexpected quarters distant from home. The Dutch and the English, for instance, encountered each other in an unwonted relation on the South African veldt. The Japanese and the Russians renewed acquaintance under strained circimistances on the plains of Manchuria — somewhat after the manner of America and Spain in Cuba and the PhiHppines, or, more recently, the Itahans and the Turks in Tripoli. Though I do not desire a rupture of friendship between the United States and her friends, she may-yet face some of them in unamiable converse on the pampas of South America.

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The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 9 places
  • Cover of the scanned copy: title, “Nitobe” (read with specks) (6 blocks)
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 4 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • Imprint page (copyright/printer's lines read as specks: “The Knickerbocker Press, New York”) (4 blocks)
  • Half-title line “The Japanese Nation” printed above Chapter I
  • Bleed-through from the facing page read as words (“of' tag Ma the this”)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers
  • Printer's signature mark (3 blocks)
  • Printer's signature mark (read by the OCR as “XI”)
  • Printer's signature mark (read by the OCR as “X5”)
  • Printer's signature mark (read by the OCR as “16 —”)
  • Printer's signature mark (read by the OCR as “n”)
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“•"■^M.”); no word of the text
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“»n?Vi”); no word of the text
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“L-v'fJi** f JL”); no word of the text
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“-^^*»f Iff.”); no word of the text
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“^ 'flT-iliriifi' %”); no word of the text
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“I”); no word of the text (2 blocks)
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“■J ■^^%”); no word of the text
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“/■”); no word of the text
  • Specks or a smudge read as characters by the OCR (“y '''' K”); no word of the text