1004　　Hubbard, Richard Bennett　(1832-1901)
The United States in the Far East.　1899.

The United States in the Far East; OR, Modern Japan and the Orient. BY RICHARD B. HUBBARD, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Japan, from 1885 to 1890; Governor of Texas, from 1876 to 1879, and Temporary President of the National Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1884.　RICHMOND, VA.: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co. 1899.　384 p., [38] leaves of plates. 21 cm.

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目　　次
CONTENTS.
Dedicatory.　5-7
Preface.　9
List of Illustrations.　15-16
Chapter I.
Appointment as United States Minister—Receiving Instructions at Washington.　17
Chapter II.
Interview with Ex-President Grant, Relating to Japan, nearly a year before the Author's Appointment as United States Minister.　19
The Educational and Political Progress of Japan in Law, Finance, Legislation, and Toleration of all Creeds and Faiths of Religion.　31
Chapter III.
Japan's Growth as a Naval and Military Power.　32
Chapter IV.
Tribute to the Blue and the Gray.　39
Chapter V.
Across the Pacific to Japan— Bon Voyage, and Its Incidents.　44
Chapter VI.
Approaching Japan.　54
Chapter VII.
Arrival in Yokohama; and Tokio, the Capital of Japan.　61
Chapter VIII.
At the United States Legation.　67
Chapter IX.
America's Day at Court.　74
Chapter X.
Physical Features, and Productions, and Material Wealth, and Resources of Japan.　82
Chapter XI.
Earthquakes.　104
Chapter XII.
Political and Educational Evolutions of Japan.　118
Chapter XIII.
Japan Awakes from the Sleep of Ages; Enters the Race for Higher Civilization.　132
Chapter XIV.
Free Public Schools and Universities of Japan.　136
Chapter XV.
The Womanhood of Japan.　144
Political Advancement.　152
Imperial Decree.　154
Chapter XVI.
The Revision of the Treaties—Part of Heretofore Unpublished History.　155
Chapter XVII.
The United States and Japan Independently of the Treaty Powers enter into a Separate Treaty, Recognizing the Early and Complete Autonomy of the Empire.　201
Chapter XVIII.
The Religions of Japan and Progress of the Christian Church.　211
Part Borne by Christian Missionaries.　222
Chapter XIX.
Toleration to the Christian Church.　228
Chapter XX.
Separation of Church and State.　231
Chapter XXI.
The Population, Area, and Industries of Japan.　243
Chapter XXII.
Future Commercial Relations—Nicaraugua Canal.　246
Chapter XXIII.
The Ship Transit in Its Relations to South America as well as Japanese Trade.　263
Chapter XXIV.
The Chinese War.　266
Chapter XXV.
Japan Wages a Humane War.　273
Chapter XXVI.
Intervention.　276
Chapter XXVII.
The United States in the Far East.　282
Chapter XXVIII.
Japan's Military and Naval Establishments in the Chinese War.　293
Chapter XXIX.
The Home Life of Japan—The Married Relations—Doom of Polygamy.　301
Chapter XXX.
Japan, and Colonizaiton by the United States in the East.　307
Chapter XXXI.
The Relation of the United States and Japan to the Proposed Peace Congress of the World, Called to Assemble at St. Petersburg in 1899.　320
Chapter XXXII.
Last Days in Japan—Homeward Bound.　337
[APPENDIX.]
Present Treaty of Commerce and Navigation Between Japan and the United States of America.　345
Amendment to the Foregoing Treaty, Proposed by the Government of the United States of America.　260
Japan's Forward Step.　361
Protocol.　364
Speech of the United States Minister on the Use of the English Language in Japan, in the Conference of all Nations.　366
Speech of the United States Minister on the Autonomy of Japan, in the International Conference.　370
Speech of the United States Minister on Japanese Jurisdiction.　379


記載書誌
WENCKSTERN II, p.128. CORDIER, col. 669. BLUM I, 1046.