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Excerpt from Japan, the New World-Power: Being a Detailed Account of the Progress and Rise of the Japanese Empire
The facts and figures showing this progress have been obtained almost exclusively from official sources, and the writer is under obligations to the heads of nearly every department of the Japanese Government, not only for the latest printed documents but for specially prepared reports containing the most recent information. The assistance thus freely given, and the aid accorded by the other authorities consulted, have been acknowledged as far as possible in the chapters of the book; and it is only necessary to repeat here that this generous help has been fully appreciated.
In printing the proper names it will be noticed that in transliterating from the Japanese the use of accents has been avoided. The best authorities agree that it is not practicable to give a correct representation of the Japanese sounds by the use of roman letters accented or unaccented and as the practice in English printing varies, accented letters have been altogether avoided, and the most familiar English forms of trans literation have been adopted.
Thanks are due to The Times for permission to include portions of articles contributed by the author to that journal. Advantage has been taken of this privilege in Chapters XLI, XLIV, XLVII, XLVIII XLIX.
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