Woman's Progress in Japan (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Woman's Progress in Japan From all Japanese, of every shade of religious belief or of none, we hear the unanimous verdict Christianity brought a new message to woman. Fifty years ago the gospel of joy began to move the hearts of Japan's daughters. Some of these, now white-haired, are still teachers, and have been makers of Christian homes or are active in Christian churches. The first recognition of female education by the Government of Japan was when a young woman, who had been under the instruction of Mrs. J. C. Hepburn of the Presbyterian Mission, was appointed assistant to Miss Margaret Clark Griffis, in the first school opened under government auspices in the castle in Tokyo. To this school with its sixty pupils, daughters of the nobility and gentry, the Empress paid repeated visits. In the book, Who's Who in Japan, for 1912, we find an astonishing record of graduates of this first school. Many are wives or widows of eminent men, leaders of the nation, while other private data reveal a remarkable line of teachers and' influential women, not a few of whom are Christians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.