This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

This classic work is both an analysis of the impact of the Western world on Japan -- the only Asian civilization voluntarily and consciously to remodel its national life on Western lines -- and a general study of how cultures interact.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.