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of the Minister of Education. The course is divided into (1) preparatory, (2) main, (3) post-graduate, (4) normal, and (5) elective. In the Academy both men and women are admitted.

Besides Japanese teachers, there were 5 foreign teachers—2 German, 1American, 1 Russian, 1 French.

As to private establishments for female education, the method, style, and origin are so various that it is beyond my power to attempt any clear description of them. I may, however, mention a few instances of them.

The Tokyo Jiogakkwan occupies a unique position. The idea was started by some foreign philanthropists in connection with a foreign philanthropic mission, not making any condition to teach religion, but to educate young girls of a respectable class in the Anglo-Saxon attainments. The idea was taken up by several eminent personages, contributions to the fund having been made by both native and foreign patrons. It also receives some special patronage from the Imperial Household. The number of pupils in October, 1903, was 230, according to a recent periodical on female education.

There is a college for girls in Tokyo called the Women’s University. The name may be somewhat inappropriate if compared with men’s Universities, but at any rate it comprises a vast number of female aspirants. It exceeds 1,000 at present, if we include all preparatory courses attached to it.

There are also various institutions where girls may study medicine, pictorial arts, technical industry, even commerce and agriculture.

There are not many women physicians practising, but I have seen some notified as passing State examination.

There are also many private schools for girls established by foreign missions in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, and many other places. Many of them are doing praiseworthy services for the education of women.

There are in the city of Tokyo 73 schools of all kinds for female education. This includes the schools mentioned before, and also among them are included schools for midwifery and nursing; but in a vast majority of them ordinary courses of instruction are given.

A few words about the occupations of women. Men and women are pretty equally proportioned in Japan, so that the fair sex in Japan has greater chances of being married than in some other countries. When they are married, they are mostly contented with looking after their household affairs and making themselves good wives and mothers. But there are a large number of women employed in operative works, such as cotton, silk, and paper mills. As to their employment in the public