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I N Jdp~ln’ ~ Feet of CXy I presented a detailed study of Japan’s peculiar social, economic and political structure. In this work I am concerned mainly with the causes and prospects of the present war, and I have outlined the situation in China on the eve of the war as well as recent political and economic developments in Japan. In Chapters IV and V I have summa rised some of the results of those researches which were presented in Japan’J Feet of Chzy, since some knowledge of Japan is essential to an under-standing of the causes of the present war, and to an appreciation of the effect which external pressure would be likely to have inside Japan. Although this study does not pretend to be exhaustive, it is hoped that it may help to clear up some of the misconceptions concerning both the origins of the war and Japan’s fundamental aims, and that it may give to those who have never studied the Far East an understanding of the issues in the Sino-Japanese war of 1937