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Rh participate in the Revolution. There are also several hundred Korean students, whose numbers will probably increase, besides many Indians and a few Siamese and Philippinos. And these Oriental students return home imbued with progressive ideas.

This is a summary of the principal events which have made a "Greater Japan." Dai Nippon (Great Japan) has been enlarged in seven years by the acquisition of considerable territory. She is no longer merely insular, but continental. She is greater in her resources and in her potentialities. She has increased her wealth and her productive capacity; she has enlarged her industrial enterprise; she has expanded her trade and commerce. She has a bigger army and navy to protect herself from aggression. Her educational facilities are greater, and her moral and spiritual development has been enhanced through Christianity. Japan enjoys greater power and influence in the world's councils, and she is also weighted with much greater responsibilities. New Japan, in 1913 sixty years old, is a truly "Greater Japan."

"Corea, the Hermit Nation" (7th edition) (Griffis); "Korea and her Neighbors" (Mrs. Bird-Bishop); "Korean Sketches" and "Korea in Transition" (Gale); "The Passing of Korea" (Hulbert); "The Tragedy of Korea" (McKenzie); "With Marquis Itō in Korea" (Ladd); "China and the Far East" (Clark University Lectures); "American Japanese Relations" (Kawakami); "The Japanese Nation" (Nitobe).