24 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 20

The October number of The New East, edited in Tokyo

by Mr. J. W. Robertson-Scott (50 sen) and printed in English and Japanese, contains some instructive articles on Japanese problems and on the attitude of some Japanese critics towards Great Britain. Dr. Anesaki's discussion of " The Spiritual Unrest in Japan " is signifi- cant ; the now Shintoist sects combine with superstition an exces- sive Jingoism, and some of the Buddhists are working on the theory that the war has proved the failure of Western as opposed to Eastern civilization. A curious list of one hundred and forty-nine things which Japanese and Western Europeans, not Germans, do in exactly opposite ways has been compiled by Mr. Clarke, of Tokyo University, the winner of a prize competition on the subject.