Tokyo, Sept, 3
Representing the work of 300 scholars, the first Encyclopedia Nipponica in English is expected to be completed at an estimated cost of Y.165000, in 1940, when Japan celebrates the 2,6001 anniversary of her founding, officials of the upon the little girl was led firmly out to the front yard to play in the sun.
She walked wearily to the front gate and stared out through the bars, Her pigtails snapped in the breeze. She thought how much she hated her governess, and the brown uniform she wore. And she sighed when she thought how she was always being told not to do this, and not to do that.
She wished fervently that her mother would spend more time with her, too. It seemed to the child that she' was hardly in her mother's arms when the governess would run in to snatch her away.
But most of all, the child wished some other little girl would pass by the gate. Someone at: whom she might smile, and venture a timid hello.
"Dear God," said the rich little girl at the gate. "I'm so, so unhappy."...
Society for International Cultural Relations revealed today,"
Work on the projected encyclopedia is progressing smoothly with 8000 sheets of manuscript completed, classified, and filed ready for translation into English, Society officials said. The tedious and pains taking work began about fifteen months ago when the Society requested 300 scholars. to ce-operate in compiling the first document of its kind, It will be published in two volumes with a third containing the index, The translation of the manuscripts will begin in October when Dr, Masaharu Ansesaki, Emeritus Professor of the Tokyo Imperial University and Japanese delegate to the International Committee for Intellectual Ca-operation in Paris, who. is also chairman on a special committee io supervise compilation of the encyclopedia, returns to Tokyo,
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