Papers from the fifth seminar of the Conference on Modern Japan, held in Puerto Rico, January, 1966.

Includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. Strategies for modernizing: On the nature of Western progress: the journal of the Iwakura embassy / Eugene Soviak -- Westernization and Japanization: the early Meiji transformation of education / Michio Nagai -- The Japanization of the mi ddle Meiji / Donald H. Shively -- The Sin-Japanese War of 1894-95 and its cultural effects on Japan / Donald Keene -- pt. 2. The arts in the Meiji period: Western style painting in the early Meiji period and its critics / John M. Rosenfield -- The formation of realism in Meiji painting: the artistic career of Takahashi Yuichi / T?oru Haga -- The modern music of Meiji Japan / William P. Malm -- pt. 3. The search for identity in literature: Natsume S?oseki and the psychological novel / Howard S. Hibbett -- T?oson and the autobiographical novel / Edwin McClellan -- Masaoka Shiki and Tanka reform / Robert H. Brower -- Kobayashi Hideo / Edward Seidensticker -- Fukuda Tsuneari: modernization and Shingeki / Benito Ortolani -- pt. 4. Philosophy, religion, and language: Nishida Kitar?o: the early years / Valdo Humbert Viglielmo -- Millenarian aspects of the new religions in Japan / Carmen Blacker -- Levels of speech (keigo) and the Japanese linguistic response to modernization / Roy Andrew Miller.