Excerpt from The Mastery of the Far East: The Story of Korea's Transformation and Japan's Rise to Supremacy in the Orient Later developments in Far Eastern affairs are but a fur ther manifestation of the fundamental causes and move ments that were discussed in the first edition. The most outstanding additional event is the Korean Independence Movement (cf. Pages 374 I regret that some pas sages in the earlier edition have been used to justify the course of the Japanese police in dealing with an uprising which occurred after the book was in press and which was not anticipated even by the Japanese and missionaries in Korea. I am grateful to reviewers for an unexpectedly kind eceptjpn of the volume. I am not surprised that some propagandists think that I have been too sympathetic with the Japanese, and that others think that I have been too sympathetic with the Koreans. I can only say that my object is not to make out a case either for or against the Japanese. I have simply tried to set forth the facts, without conscious effort to manipulate them for any partisan end. Arthur judson brown. 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.