Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Illustrations XI
5. Sakura-No-Hana (Cherry Blossoms) XIII
6. Getting a New God 1
7. The Yokohama that Was 6
8. Japan the Inscrutable 9
9. Meat for Dinner 15
10. More Deadly than the Male 19
11. Shopping 24
12. The Honorable Foxes 29
13. Seventeen Million Extra Mouths 32
14. Etiquette 37
15. “ Eyes But They See Not . . .” 44
16. Child Labor 46
17. Cherry Blossoms and Saké 50
18. A Ghost Dance of Old Japan 54
19. When Truth Was Stranger than Fiction 59
20. Where the Poor Mourn 64
21. Rushing the Gates of Heaven 66
22. In The Service of the Emperor 69
23. Civic Responsibility 71
24. The Artistry of the Japanese 74
25. “The Dishonest Japanese” 79
26. The Peerless Mountain 82
27. Americanization 87
28. Odds and Ends of New Japan 92
29. Stop! Go! 98
30. Every ’Rikisha Has His Day 100
31. Burning Up With Tokyo 103
32. When the Gods Go A-Riding 108
33. When a Flivver Is Not a Flivver 112
34. “Go Slow” in Tokyo 115
35. The English Language in Japan 118
36. Signs – But Not to Believe in 121
37. The Melancholy Student 127
38. Trying to Hustle the East 133
39. Song Birds 138
40. Drumming Up Religion 142
41. Militarism 147
42. The Mighty Stoop 149
43. Laugh and Japan Laughs with You 151
44. Himeji Castle 155
45. Gen-Bu-Dō 160
46. Beans to Rout the Devils 164
47. Osaka: Japan’s Booster City 167
48. Railway Travel 171
49. Houses, Like Mountains High 176
50. Toast Your Toes While You Sleep 182
51. New Year’s 186
52. Snow and Smoke 192
53. After Nightfall in Tokyo 199