The Japanese are a most curious contrast to the Chinese, so anxious to learn, and so prévenants.

"The Japanese are such an interesting little people!" IX.

It is hopeless to explain to a traveller who has been 'ohayoed' into half-a-dozen shops and 'sayonaraed' out of half-a-dozen more and politely cheated in each one, that the Japanese is an Oriental, and, therefore, embarrassingly economical of the truth.

[Illustration] It has always been said that the Japanese are the French of the Orient.

I have come here as a peacemaker, and I desire to settle everything now, and thus prevent trouble hereafter; I wish to write home to my Government that the Japanese are friends.

In the beginning few Taiwanese qualified as teachers because, under Japanese rule, Japanese had been the medium of instruction.

When, I wonder, did the American people get the impression so extensive and obstinate that the Japanese and Chinese were idlers?

"The Japanese are such an interesting little people!" IX.

In this case, he ought, unquestionably, to have said"beneath even a native of Japan;" because, whether Japanese be a noun or not, it is absurd to call a Japanese, "that country."

I answered that "the first Japanese that touches an English officer or soldier in my presence will be a dead man."

An endless mass of legislation in California and other Western States has been devised, either openly against the Chinese or so couched as to really exclude them from the ordinary civic liberties, and most of our State laws or courts declare that the Japanese are Mongolian although that people deny it.