INTRODUCTION  THE instances given in the following pages to illustrate the subject of this brochure, do not profess to be by any means exhaustive.  They have simply been selected from those contrasts which most forcibly strike the observant foreigner on first arriving in Japan and coming in contact with its people, and could doubtless be largely supplemented upon a more intimate acquaintance with their social habits and customs, but this would be beyond the scope and aim of the writer.  No fitter Introduction can be presented to the reader than the following short quotation taken (by permission) from Professor Chamberlain's valuable work on “Things Japanese.”  “It has often been remarked that the Japanese do “many things in a way that runs directly counter to “European ideas of what is natural and proper.  “To the Japanese themselves our ways appear “equally unaccountable.  “It was only the other day that a Tokyo lady “asked the present writer-‘Why foreigners did so “‘many things topsyturvy, instead of doing them “‘naturally, after the manner of her country “‘people?'”		O wad some power the giftie gie us.  To see oursel's as ither's see us!  It wad fra' mony a blunder free us And foolish notion!   Robert Burns.
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