Following The Sun Flag
recounts John Fox, Jr.'s experiences as a war correspondent in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. Fox was one of the newspaper correspondents who flocked to Japan on the outbreak of the war. A number of war correspondents, among them Mr. John Fox, Jr., set out for Japan in the early part of the Japanese-Russian war with the distinct purpose of witnessing the Japanese "in assault and in retreat—to see him fighting, wounded, and since such things in war must be, dying—dead." Following the Sun-Flag gives us a picture of turn-of-the-century society in Japan, a comparative study of Japanese character that is finely realistic, and a series of personal experiences carefully noted. The work is never dull and is brightened with a touch of happy humor (Goodreads).