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Excerpt from Life and Adventure in Japan: Illustrated From the Original Photographs IF the young folks for whom this book is prepared find in it as much pleasure as the author has experienced in wri ting it, the labor will prove well bestowed. Japan is an interesting country, and peculiar fascination may be found in studying its people and watching the ever changing scenes in this beautiful island empire. The author resided four years in the country (1871 in the service of the Japanese government; two years were Spent at the city of the exiled Tycoon, and two at the mod ern capital Of the Mikado. 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.