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present volume carries the writer's studies regarding the problem of the Far East one step further. It has been written primarily to allow the ordinary reader to see at a glance what the position really is to-day in Eastern Asia, and to explain precisely why there should be conflict between China and Japan.

The essential point—which the writer first insisted upon at great length in 'The Fight for the Republic in China'—is that Japan has a double policy, one policy for the East and another for the West; that she uses military power and secret loans to advance the first, and diplomacy and publicity the second; and that this intricate matter can be understood only by exploring the history of the remote past.

The writer's thanks are due to the publishers of the magazine Asia for permission to reprint these essays in book-form.