The Characteristics Of The Japanese People: Story Of The Last Century

The Japanese are distinguished by a yellowish skin, straight black hair, scanty beard, almost total absence of hair on the arms, legs, and chest, broadish prominent cheek-bones, and more or less obliquely set eyes. These, with the other characteristics to be mentioned presently, are common both to the more slenderly built, oval-faced aristocracy, and to pudding-faced Gombei, the "Hodge" of Japanese Arcadia. Compared with people of European race, the average Japanese has a long body and short legs, a large skull with a tendency to prognathism (projecting jaws), a flat nose, coarse hair, scanty eye-lashes, puffy eyelids, a sallow complexion, and a low stature. The average stature of Japanese men is about the same as the average stature of European women. The women are proportionately smaller...

• • Author: Basil H. Chamberlain
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 20, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 120 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1530655145
• • ISBN-13: 9781530655144