Political Thought in Early Meiji Japan, 1868-1889, by Joseph Pittau, Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan, 1868-1900, by George AkitaPolitical Thought in Early Meiji Japan, 1868-1889, by Joseph Pittau, S.J. Harvard East Asian Series, XXIV. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1967. 250 pp.Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan, 1868-1900, by George Akita. Harvard East Asian Series XXIII. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1967. 292 pp. Both distributed in Canada by Saunders of Toronto.