Who were the “boy scouts of feudal Japan”? I have no idea! In this episode of Public Domain Theater 3000, we read this 1914 article to discover what in the hell this author could possibly mean.

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Main Sources

Hibbard, C. A. (1914). “The Boy Scouts of Feudal Japan.” The Outlook, p. 183-187.

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