Excerpt from The Unveiled East In August, 1905, the world has seen a gradual unveiling of the policy of New Japan. By the extension and maintenance of territorial supremacy outside her own borders, by securing exclusive trading privileges, by a wholesale system of monopolies, sub sidies, bounties, and concessions, and by the skilful use of her limited tariff autonomy, Japan has entered fully upon a campaign of aggressive imperialism. She is acquiring, by conquest and by construction, the ownership of a vast system of ...
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Excerpt from The Unveiled East In August, 1905, the world has seen a gradual unveiling of the policy of New Japan. By the extension and maintenance of territorial supremacy outside her own borders, by securing exclusive trading privileges, by a wholesale system of monopolies, sub sidies, bounties, and concessions, and by the skilful use of her limited tariff autonomy, Japan has entered fully upon a campaign of aggressive imperialism. She is acquiring, by conquest and by construction, the ownership of a vast system of railways on the main land of Asia; her mercantile marine, working under Government direction and largely with Government funds, has for a year waged open and merciless war upon British and German shipping lines for the Pacific coasting trade., Entering Korea under the guise of friendship and alliance, her representatives have absorbed the Government, made the Emperor virtually a prisoner, forced the British chief of the Customs Service from office, acquired many concessions, and seized the lands and homes of the common people in towns and country. In Manchuria a policy of colonisation and national assertion has been adopted which, if not checked, will inevitably bring that province under the rule of Tokyo. The Japanese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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