JAPAN. 



The modernization of this remarkable island em- 

 pire of Niphon (the native name), which began in 

 1868, included the organization of a forest department 

 after German models. Curiously enough, there are 

 other noteworthy points of similarity to be found in 

 the historic development of forestry in Germany and 

 Japan. 



The empire comprises four larger islands Kiushiu, 

 Shikoku, Hondo or Honshiu, and Hokkaido or Yesso 

 and a host of smaller ones, stretching in a chain of 

 nearly 3,000 miles north and south along the Asiatic 

 shore, the width of land being nowhere over 200 miles. 

 It comprises an area of nearly 150,000 squares miles, 

 with a population approximating 50 million, largely 

 engaged in fisheries and other sea industries. 



Forestry of Japan, 1904, published by the'Imperial Bureau of Forestry in 

 connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and a reprint with ad- 

 ditions in 1910, contains most of the information utilized above. 



Aus den Waldungen Japan's, by Dr. Heinrich Mayr, 1891, gives a full 

 account of the forest geography, which is also to be found in J. J. Rein, Japan, 

 1886. 



Der Wald in Japan, an article by Dr. Hefele in Forstwissenschaftliche3 

 Centralblatt, 1903, gives an insight into forest conditions from the point of 

 view of a forester. 



A very clear analysis of the development of property rights is to be found 

 in an article by Dr. Zentaro Kawase in Allgemeine Forst-und Jagdzeitung, 

 1894. 



An article in Zeitschrift fur Forst-und Jagdwesen from the pen of Prof. 

 H. Matsuno, the first professional forester of Japan, gives a brief account of 

 the development of forestry, especially in earlier times. 



A report by Special Canadian Trade Commissioner W. T. R. Preston, 1908, 

 contains valuable statistics on the lumber trade. 



