Excerpt from Japan in Pictures To rest in one inspiring scene of foreign travel and analyse your impressions of another is a banquet of the senses. I sit on the Palatine looking over the Forum and the senate-house, at Nero's tower and the Seven Hills of Rome as I recall the features of japan. The word japan very appropriately means the Land of the Rising Sun. The sun of Asia has risen there from the mists of many centu ries even if it be destined to set in a storm of blood. But few japanese are aware that they live in japan, a corruption of Marco Polo's mis-spelling of two Chinese words. They call their country Dai Nippon, Great Nippon. They put the great before it a few years ago, when they became imbued with the faith that they were destined to be the Great Britain of the Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.