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Excerpt from Museum Stories for Children, Vol. 19: October-December 1932 To the east of China lies a group of islands to which the Chinese long ago gave the name J 1-pen on which our word Japan is based. This word means sun origin' or the starting point of the sun. Hence another name for Japan is The Land of the Rising Sun. Japan was a land of mystery for a long time. No foreigners were allowed to land on its shores, and no natives could leave under penalty of death. Until Commodore Perry, in 1853, convinced the ruler that trade with the west would be good for that country, the people lived bound up in old customs and beliefs. Today, Japan is one of the great nations of the world. 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.