272 A Short History of Nursing it was a beginning. It has been amended since that time, but as yet no nurse has been placed on the executive or examining committee and the administration of the act is carried on by medical men. In no country has Red Cross organization been more perfect or Red Cross nursing more thoroughly developed on a high plane than in Japan. A military country, with the chivalrous ideals of the Samurai pervading its upper circles; a Countries scientific country, thorough and in- where Red telligent, Japan surprised the world at Cross is . paramount the time of the war with Russia by the based on excellence of her sanitary, medical, and the Night- . , ingale nursing preparations for war. From system ^-j^g^^ time on, the Japanese Red Cross was unique in being the only one, until the United States came into the Red Cross officially, to debar volunteer aids from the actual care of the sick and wounded, and to bestow a full three years' training on all its nursing staff. Modern nursing was first introduced into Japan (1885) through a little mission school in Tokio, at the Doshisha hospital, by Japan Linda Richards. Five years she was there, and then the Japanese took the school over, and improved it, as Miss Richards herself said.
