The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-18
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and is putting up several new build
ings.
There are also a number of mission
airy schools and colleges The Presby-
terians support three boarding schools
for boys and eleven for girls, besides
ten day schools. The total attendance
at these '5choOlS is nearly $500. ..-
the Congrega tionalists have a num-
Der of schools, the largest Doshisha
college, at -Kyoto, being the largest and
most influential Christian institution in
Japan. I had the pleasure of visiting
both this college and KyCto university
The MethOdists have eighteen board
ing schools and nineteen day schools,
with a total attendance OF nearly. 5000
Their college at Kobe. is a very prom
| Using institution.
The Baptists have q theological sem
mary, an academy, five boarding
schools for girls and eight day schools,
with a total attendance of nearly 1000
The Episcopal church has also taken
an important part in educational work,
while the Catholics (who were on the
ground first) have over sixty semin-
aries, schools and Orphanages, with an
attendance of some 5000.
The Japanese government supports
more than $4,000 primary schools, at
tended by more than 5,000,O00 boys and
girls; it supports more than go middle
schools, with an attendance of nearly
100000 While less than 2 per cent of
the primary students enter the middle
school, more than 10 per cent of the
middle school students enter the higher
colleges.
Although the figures given above give
some idea of the interest taken in edu-
cation. they do not furnish an adequate
conception of the enthusiasm with
which a large number of these students
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young men called upon me or wrote to
me, asking to be taken to America that
they might continue their studies.
Many of the leading men in Japan to-
day are graduates of American or Eu-
Tope7n colleges. The physicians have
shown preference for German schools,
while TO engineers and politicians our
universities have been more attract
i've. part of the friendliness felt
toward foreigners can be traced to the
faVors shown japanese boys who left
home in search of knowledge Marquis
Ito, one of the first of these, owes much
to an elder of the Presbyterian church
in England, in whose home he lived as
a student. and the marquis has ever
since been making returns in kindness
to foreigners and Christians.
Marquis Ito's case is not exceptional;
all over Japan are men who hold in
grateful remembrance Americans and
Europeans to whom they are Indebted
for assistance. / met a man, now q
publisher of an influential paper, who
twenty years ago, at the ageo of Is, went
to sea and in a shipWreck was cast
upon one of the islands in the South
Pacific. He became a retainer Of the
king of the islands and as such wore
| the scanty native dress, consisting of a
! loiH cloth. He went with his king to
Honolulu to pay a visit TO the Hawaiian
queen, and, finding a Japanese settle
ment there, remained for twO-or three
years He then went TO the United
States, and, making a friend OF pro-
lessor in one of the universities, at
tended school there for several years.
He now visits the United States every
year or so on business, and one seeing
him wearing a silk hat and a Prince
Albert coat would hardly guess the ex-
periences by which he has risen to his
present position If Japan, beginning
fifty years ago with no educational sys-
tenn and scarcely any educated men
or women, could accomplish what she
has accomplished in half a century,
what will she accomplish in the TWEEN
| tfeth century with the start which she
now mas and with the educational ad-
vantages which her people now enjoy
Japan has several religions, although
Shintoism has been, since 1888, the
state religion. AS a matter of fact,
however, Shintoism can hardly be
called a religion, for ii has no creed,
no priesthood and no code Of morals.
IT is really ancestor worship and comes
down from time immemoriaL 1t com