Excerpt from The Chinese: Their Present and Future: Medical, Political, and Social We were, of course, delighted with Japan - every body is. I have yet to meet a person who was disap pointed with the country or its inhabitants. From the moment of landing at Yokohama until the moment of leaving Nagasaki, one is in perpetual change of pleasant scenes. We visited the curio-shops, silk-shops, and temples, bought canes, scrolls, screens, and cuff-buttons in a most reckless fashion - for, really, you see so many beautiful things, and apparently so cheap, that you will buy as long as your finances stand it. Every one who comes to Japan goes away much poorer, and, of course, the country benefits by visitors who come to spend. 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.