•The THE MACMILLAN COMPANY MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO RELATIONS BY THE HON. IICHIRO TOKUTOMI Member of the House of Peers and TRANSLATED BY SUKESHIGE YANAGIWARA, B.S., M.A. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922 All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published April, 1922. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE THE chapters relating to Japanese-American Relations offered in this volume are taken from "Taisen Go No Sekai to Nihon" (The World and Japan after the Great War) by the Hon. Iichiro Tokutomi, the most eminent and influential contemporary writer of Japan. The original book came out last October and within less than three months had reached its twelfth edition. This will give the reader an idea of its tremendous popularity in Japan. As to the favor which Mr. Tokutomi's books enjoy in Japan, Mr. J. Ingram Bryan appropriately remarked in The Nation of April 13th, 1921, that "A new book by Iichiro Tokutomi, member of the House of Peers, editor of the Kokumin, and Japan's foremost literary critic, is always an event." I have translated this volume because I consider Mr. Tokutomi's views of special interest to |