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Routledge
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Routledge
136 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume is based upon personal observations and recollections of the author extending over six different periods of residence in Japan between 1859 and 1877. It examines how the focus of the West towards Japan changed, as Japan became a dominant force in the political arena of the Far East when it freed itself of Chinese rule and, through the Meiji restoration adopted a democratic system of... Read more
Author Preface, Translators Preface, Japan's Accession, Appendix: Treaty of Commerce and B=Navigation Between Great Britain and Japan- Articles I- XXII.
Biography
Baron Alexander von Siebold, Translated from the German with an introduction by Charles Lowe
