hardly worth quoting, yet they serve to show what exaggerated views are held by some in regard to the numbers of prostitutes in Japan.  He tells us that a moderate estimate for licensed prostitutes and for geisha is 500,000 each, while the unlicensed number at least a million, making a total of 2,000,000 or 10 per cent. of the total female population of Japan!  A careful statistical inquiry on this subject has been recently made by Rev. U.G.  Murphy.  His figures were chiefly secured from provincial officers.  According to these returns the number of licensed prostitutes is 50,553 and of dancing girls is 30,386.  Mr. Murphy’s figures cannot be far astray, and furnish us something of a basis for comparison with European countries.  Statistics regarding unlicensed prostitutes are naturally not to be had.]

[Footnote BO:  P. 148.]

[Footnote BP:  June 25, 1898.]

[Footnote BQ:  The last line of figures, those for 1897, is taken from Rev. U.G.  Murphy’s statistical pamphlet on “The Social Evil in Japan.”]

[Footnote BR:  It is stated that Mill’s work on “Representative Government,” which, translated, fills a volume of five hundred pages in Japanese, has reached its third edition.]

[Footnote BS:  The Japan Mail for February 5, 1896; quoting from the Jiji Shimpo.]

[Footnote BT:  The best summary of this discussion which I have seen in English is found in the Japan Mail for February 4, 1899.]

[Footnote BU:  Japan Mail, January 14, 1899.]

[Footnote BV:  Japan Mail, June 24, 1898.]

[Footnote BW:  The constituency of the Doshisha consists principally of Kumiai Christians.]

[Footnote BX:  “Occult Japan,” p. 23.]

[Footnote BY:  Cf. chapter xxiv.]

[Footnote BZ:  “A Japanese Philosopher,” p. 120.]

[Footnote CA:  In immediate connection with this oft-quoted statement, however, I would put the following, as much more recent, and probably representing more correctly the Marquis’s matured opinion.  Mr. Kakehi, for some time one of the editors of the Osaka Mainichi Shinbun (Daily News), after an interview with the illustrious statesman in which many matters of national importance were discussed, was asked by the Marquis where he had been educated.  On learning that he was a graduate of the Doshisha, the Marquis remarked:  “The only true civilization is that which rests on Christian principles, and that consequently, as Japan must attain her civilization on these principles, those young men who receive Christian education will be the main factors in the development of future Japan.”]

[Footnote CB:  Chamberlain’s “Things Japanese,” p. 358.]

[Footnote CC:  “Things Japanese,” p. 70, and Murray’s “Hand-book for Japan,” p. 37.]

[Footnote CD:  “Things Japanese,” p. 93.]

[Footnote CE:  P. 85.]

[Footnote CF:  Cf. chapter xxiii. p. 271.]