CULTURED TOKYO
Tokyo is a* most tjosmopolitan . city. The book stores therei are filled with books in original Russian, Roumanian, Swedish, German, French, and all," languages are represented on their shelves. The volumes ara not merely left on the shelves to collect* the dust, they aro read, and read thoroughly." The Japanese specialise tremendously, and they read for ideas^ After carefal. thoirghit those ideas are applied to Japanese conditions. Their© is a little village many miks from Tokyo where practically everybody exists on l^d a day. The teachers in the mid-schools in the village axe paid about £4 to £10 a month, yet they are always ordering cheap philisophical books from Tokyo. If they do not actually hand on tixe. knowledge gained to the pupils, the teachers stimulate thought. The Japanese are like the Athenians of old — always hearing and tolling sbmetHing new. And Tokyo is the feeding-house oi intjeifnational ideas.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13657, 27 March 1918, Page 4
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151CULTURED TOKYO Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13657, 27 March 1918, Page 4
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