CONTENTS
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| CHAPTER IX | |
| THE ARMY | |
| I. The Growth of the Army | |
| BY FIELD-MARSHAL MARQUIS YAMAGATA | |
| The Early Military Organization—Quasi-Conscription and Conscription—The Army and Civil Wars—The Reconstruction of 1883—The Chino-Japanese War—The Boxer Disturbance—China’s Hope | 105 |
| II. The Army To-day | |
| BY FIELD-MARSHAL MARQUIS OYAMA | |
| The Minister of War—Peace and War Establishments—Transport—Pay and Pensions—The National Defence Office—The Staff College—The Appointment of Officers—Recruiting—Education | 109 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| THE NAVY | |
| BY REAR-ADMIRAL SAITO | |
| Early Days—The Restoration—Naval Administration—Naval Stations and Dockyards—Personnel—Executive Officers—Engineer Officers—Petty Officers and Men—The Naval Academy—Naval Expenditure—Pay | 121 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| DIPLOMACY | |
| BY PROFESSOR NAGAO ARIGA | |
| Before the Restoration—The Question of Corea—The Question of Sakhalin—The Question of Liukiu—The Question of Treaty Revision—Date’s Mission to China and Lord Iwakura’s Mission to Europe and America—The Affair of the Maria Luz—Soyejima’s Mission to China—The Great Cabinet Rupture of 1873—The Formosan Expedition and the Treaty of Tientsin—Solution of the Question of Liukiu—Solution of the Question of Sakhalin—The Corean Affair of 1884—War Between China and Japan—System of Japanese Diplomacy | 142 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| FOREIGN POLICY | |
| BY COUNT OKUMA | |
| Obtaining an Equal International Footing—Foreign Intercourse—The Eastern Question—Immovable and Unchangeable Foreign Policy necessary | 219 |
