Excerpt from Japan in World Politics: A Study in International Dynamics In a former book I gave an outline of the national evolution of Japan since it came into contact with Western civilisation about the middle of last century, and also indicated the force which had been at work in bringing about what is admitted to be the political wonder of the latter half of the nineteenth century, namely, the rise of Japan as a World-Power. The immediate occasion for its appearance was the outbreak of war between Japan and Russia, and it was intended to give the people of Europe and America a fairly complete account of the new Power which had arisen in the Far East. It is a fact that discussions on social, economic, or political subjects are apt to be idle, unfruitful, and certainly tiresome, unless they are connected with some live temporary issue, and the chief object of the present book is to consider some of the tendencies of the present time as illustrated by some of the important international problems which have resulted from the war between Japan and Russia as well as some of the wider aspects of the results of the economic and political development of Japan. 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.