ABSTRACT
ONE of the interesting accompaniments of a system of admitting scholars as such to membership of a legislature1 is that from time to time they will give their academic problems an airing in a place to which such matters are usually foreign. There are numerous examples of this in Japan, but perhaps the most outstanding is that of Dr. Tanakadate, who, at every session of the House of Peers for the last few years, has bid his colleagues cease their preoccupation with political problems and consider those involved in writing the Japanese language with the Roman alphabet and particularly the advantages of the system of so doing which he advocates.
