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In The Fighting Man of Japan we have a very interesting little book by Mr. F.J. Norman, who is eminently fitted to discourse on the Exercises and Training of the Samurai, having passed many years in Japan as instructor to some of the military and civilian colleges. THE writer, an old hussar, has been a long resident in Japan, and an instructor in its leading colleges. His book, though of but eighty pages, is one of the most interesting and most valuable of the contributions to our literature which we owe to the Russo-Japanese war, now happily ended. Had we all known what Mr. Norman knew, its results would scarcely have been so much of a surprise to the rest of the world as they have proved. The book is not didactic, but historical and personal, giving a concise account of the military and naval training in Japan and a sketch of Mr. Norman's own experiences in the fencing and wrestling schools in Tokyo. He had a unique experience with the great professors and reached an efficiency which astonished his masters. "Lately you have become greatly disciplined in fencing. I admire you much," as the great Onova wrote on his card. There is an admirably clear and concise history of Japan from its beginnings. Between the lines we can see the reasons why development was for so long impeded, and why, when the change began, the advance was so sudden and so decided. The book is divided into four chapters, each of which deals with a separate subject. The first gives a rapid sketch of Japanese military history dating from 1543, which is as far back as our European knowledge of it extends, and incidentally giving a description of the spirit which animated the Samurai of old and a very different one, it would appear from Mr. Norman's account, from that which guided our knights and crusaders. An interesting chapter is that on the education of the naval and military officers, showing what a very fine sieve has to be passed through before the aspirants are thought capable.

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Paperback, Этикетка: Book on Demand Pod, Book on Demand Pod, Группа продуктов: Book, Опубликовано: 1992, Дата выпуска: 1992-01-01, Студия: Book on Demand Pod.

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The-Fighting-Man-of-Japan~~F-J-Norman, The Fighting Man of Japan, Paperback.