Excerpt from The Rural Life of Japan Temperance policy in a village near the bay of Hamana The village mopoly of sake and the public houses - Daiean's (headman) declaration adopting the measure - Young Men's Association in Nara - all bad habits demolished - Young men's association in Yena Its branch associations and industrial club - the strenuous effort of an exemplary leader in' Hirukawao Association in Toyo-oka and its sup porter-moral lectures by S. Nishir-nura and the establishment of a trust' league - Kyoken Shrine in Takehara - machi and its erector Rai - Manshiro - Nakae Tfiju's study and the Emperor Kokaku's autograph of the three Chinese characters - Taikyfigakus'ha a middle school) and its founder; Gihei Hamaguchi Characteristics of its dormitory life and moral dis cipline - Sunday lectures in. Kurashiki-mura - Ishida Baigan, founder iof Shingaku - dowa (a famous system of moral lectures of a popular nature) and his'discipline - Supplementary education and educational sum mons in Hyegot - sthe Mechanical Night School in Kobe - The graduates-s - Bunya Bugi, founder of the Kohoku Library in Shiga - Other local libraries esta blished with money saved - A charity school at a slum quarter in Tokyo - Origin of Young Men's Association of Japan - Y. M. A. In Kawanuma, F ukushima. 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 techlogy 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.