New Asia - An Organ of Oriental Culture and Thought January 1939

But neither in the solemn Covenant of the European League nor in the Republican Forum of the Washington Conference could Japan introduce the fundamental concept of racial Equality what to speak of Liberty of speech and Fraternity of soul. [...] Violating the fundamentals of Law as well as of Ethics the Western powers developed a new cult of power politics" which led to the development in the 19th century of two dangerous factors subversive of equity and democracy : the colonialism of the 18th century slowly and inevitably developed into the warring imperialism of the 19th. [...] Bushido the ethics of the 'Samurai class of people has not died away with the abolition of feudalism ; but it developed so widely and deeply into the heart of the people that it became the most importaftt element in the national character of the entire nation. [...] The famous catalogue of Buniyo Nanjio—A Catalogue of the Chinese Translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka published in 1883 was a catalogue of this Japanese collection which was again a reproduction of the first Ming edition of the Tripitaka. [...] The Yamatoe (chiefly picture scroll) of the 12th and 13th centuries the Kanga (based on the Sung and the Yuan styles) of the 15th and 16th centuries the screen painting of the second half of the 16th century are being vigorously studied.