Essential thing about Japan - speed from which it became transformed from the semicivilized nation

Essential thing about Japan - speed from which it became transformed from the semicivilized nation in one of the great nations of the modern world. About one year 1868 Japan was the improgressive, unaware country of usual Asian type, hardly differing in any case from internal area of China today. That year revolution took place, which place the whole power of empire in hands of an existing Mikado, or the Emperor. Immediately Japan has started to assimilate the Western ideas of a civilisation and to accept the Western methods of trade, trade, manufacturing, the government, and formation. To 1889 government remains an absolute monarchy. That year the Mikado voluntary proclaimed the constitution according to which have been appointed legislative Parliament, or 'the Imperial Diet,' and an executive Office of the state ministers so that the government of Japan was now so 'constitutional' as that from Germany or the Great Britain. The government is others completely in the modern ways. As formation, for example, almost also care in Germany or New England. There are 220 established kindergartens, 97 technical schools, and 49 pedagogical schools for training of teachers (one being for training of teachers of high school), besides elementary schools, high schools, the high schools, special schools (1263 them), and universities. University Tokio - the imperial establishment supported completely by the government, with colleges in the law, a science, medicine, the literature, working out, and agriculture. Formation, between age six and fourteen, necessarily. Army, also, completely [150] modern business. It consists of 285 000 men, and
The idea of its present can be collected from the fact, that the important part of its organisation - the educational schools and colleges. Even sergeants are especially trained and formed. As a whole students at military schools and colleges of Japan, number 2400. The fleet, also, as is known, also is modern and effective. It consists of 5 linear ships and 15 first class cruisers, besides other 46 courts, - torpedo crafts, boats, escort courts, etc., - and it is intended to construct huge fleet of 19 linear ships and cruisers, and 100 crafts of a torpedo besides.
AGRICULTURE OF JAPAN