ABSTRACT
Europeans have been in Japan, and very much in evidence, during the past half-century, but the residents in the country have exercised much influence upon Japan. There can be no doubt whatever that the foreign residents in Japan have accomplished a great work in regard to the development of the country. This chapter has noticed a tendency on the part of writers on Japan to refer to the foreign community in that Empire as if it were a community bound together by some particular principle. In Japan, where there is a large foreign community, logical Japanese has had abundant opportunities for studying not only the principles of Western religions and Western morality, but also the practice of them by Western residents in their own land. In the early days when Japan was first opened to the Western world and English traders went to push their commodities, the people heard a good deal about the peculiar ethics of Japanese commercial morality.
