Identifier: warineuropeitsca00john (find matches)
Title: The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Sully and Kleinteich
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cabinet ministers, chosenby him and responsible to him. The Imperial Diet consists of theHouse of Peers and the House of Representatives. The former iscomposed of all adult men of the imperial family, other persons ap-pointed by the emperor, and certain public officials in each city of thefirst class. The House of Representatives is composed of memberselected from each district of the empire. The country is divided andsubdivided, for local administration, into piefectures, municipalities,and counties, towns, and villages. In 1871 a national system of education was established, largelywith the aid of American teachers. Instead of the old teaching, givenin temples or in private houses, where the children sat on the floor andlearned only the rudiments of arithmetic and literature, the pupilsare taught in graded classes in schoolhouses built and arranged inmodern western style. Japan has three universities, more than 26,000elementary schools, and numerous middle, high, and normal schools.
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JAPANESE TRENCHES IN MANCHURIAEuropean soldiers are now scoring the countryside with hundreds of miles of trenches Just like these 876 JAPAN 377 many schools for special studies, such as music, science, commerce,agriculture, the fine arts, and naval and military instruction. As in many countries of Europe, military service is compulsory.Service is for two or three years in the ranks, and then five years andfour months in the reserves. After serving seven years and fourmonths in the first line, the men are transferred to the kobi, which cor-responds to the German Landwehr, or first reserves. This service isfor ten years, and the men next enter the territorial or home-defensearmy, serving two years and eight months. Up to 1914 the total peacestrength was 225,000 officers and men; the war footing 740,000. The navy consists of four dreadnoughts, ten battle-ships of thefirst class and four of the second class, twenty-nine steel cruisers,ninetj^-five torpedo-boat destroyers, sixty-four torp

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