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AMERICAN DIPLOMACY IN THE ORIENT

dawning of a new era in the East. A sympathetic response was made to the motto which the Japanese inscribed over their exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876:—

In the ancient Yamato Island, the sun rises:
Must not even the foreigner reverence?