Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-30
JAPAN'S WAR LITERATURE.
Magazines Full of Pictures and Son.
 venirs of Battles.

haSazines Full or Pictures and 6ou-
 venirs of Battles.
 All Japan Is flooded with war liter ature of various kinds and some of the overflow has found its way to Mime apolis through the medium of Japa- nese residents in that city, says the Minneapolis Tribune. The bellboys at the Nicollet are particularly well sup piled with magazines, illustrated sup plements and official war records, all filled with accounts of battles, sieges and marches, written in Queer-looking Japanese characters.
 One of these, a pamphlet containing the official records of the war pub lished in two editions, one covering the period from the beginning of the con fiict, on Feb. 6, 1904, up to the 9th of last July, and the other recording events down 10 Jan. 2, 1905, is publish ed by brother and cousin of Frank and Harry Nomura, two of the Nicol- let bellboys. Another Is an illustrated supplement to the regular war maga- zine. This is eagerly awaited and its monthly arrival is the signal for the Japs at the hotel to foregather as soon as opportunity offers and look over the numerous photographs of camp scenes. heroes and battlefields, which fill its pages from cover to cover with just enough reading matter to make 1t in- teresting to the Japanese.
 The Sun Trade Journal is the title of another of the collection. This is Il monthly magazine, published in Tokyo and devoted to the Anglo-Japanese- American interests. The first twenty four pages are in English and of the typical magazine style, consisting of articles on different subjects of public interest by well-known men, editorial comment, current topics and a brief resume of the events of the war dur ing the month The remainder of the magazine Is in the language of Nip pon; but the advertisers seem to be almost all Americans and in the midst of the Japanese character the eye lights upon the names of well-kno, n firms in New York, Chicago, St. Lorns and other cities of the United States Of interest as giving a line on the character of the Japanese schools, Is the students monthly, gotten out by the pupils of the academy at Tokyo. This contains stories written by stu dents and professors at the academy, writing of a more serious character on the sciences and mathematics, H. lustrated by drawings and examina- tions into English and German, to- gether, of course, with more or less about that one absorbing topic, the war.
 One peculiariarity about the maae- up of these periodicals from the land of the Rising Sun which presents It. self to the western mind is the way in which they read, from right to left instead of from left to right, so that the front cover is on what is usually | regarded as the back of the magazine. Another remarkable thing about them l is that the advertisements are all printed on gayly colored sheets of pa per, which are easily distinguished from the ordinary white pages on which the general reading matter ap- pears, so that in perusing a Japanese magazine the unsuspecting reader can not possibly be inveigled into examin- ing into the merits of some new soap or breakfast food without his full con sent.