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Diplomat in Japan : an Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan.
A fascinating inside account of the epic clash between the Japanese in the West in its earliest days. Sir Ernest Satow entered the British diplomatic service in 1861, a fresh graduate of London University, shortly arriving in Yokohama as the pressure of the Western powers heightened to force Japan f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuttle Publishing,
1983.
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| Colección: | Tut books. H.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Publisher's Foreword; Preface; CHAPTER I: Appointment as Student Interpreter at Yedo; CHAPTER II: Yokohama Society, Official and Unofficial; CHAPTER III: Political Conditions in Japan; CHAPTER IV: Treaties-Anti-Foreign Spirit-Murder of Foreigners; CHAPTER V: Richardson's Murder-Japanese Studies; CHAPTER VI: Official Visit to Yedo; CHAPTER VII: Demands for Reparation-Japanese Proposals to Close the Ports-Payment of the Indemnity; CHAPTER VIII: Bombardment of Kagoshima; CHAPTER IX: Shimonoseki: Preliminary Measures
- CHAPTER X: Shimonoseki-Naval OperationsCHAPTER XI: Shimonoseki-Peace concluded with Choshiu; CHAPTER XII: The Murder of Bird and Baldwin; CHAPTER XIII: Ratification of the Treaties by the Mikado; CHAPTER XIV: Great Fire at Yokohama; CHAPTER XV: Visit to Kagoshima and Uwajima; CHAPTER XVI: First Visit to Ozaka; CHAPTER XVII: Reception of Foreign Ministers by the Tycoon; CHAPTER XVIII: Overland from Ozaka to Yedo; CHAPTER XIX: Social Intercourse with Japanese Officials-Visit to Niigata, Sado Gold Mines, and Nanao; CHAPTER XX: Nanao to Ozaka Overland; CHAPTER XXI: Ozaka and Tokushima
- CHAPTER XXII: Tosa and NagasakiCHAPTER XXIII: Downfall of the Shogunate; CHAPTER XXIV: Outbreak of Civil War (1868); CHAPTER XXV: Hostilities begun at Yedo and Fushimi; CHAPTER XXVI: The Bizen Affair; CHAPTER XXVII: First Visit to Kioto; CHAPTER XXVIII: Harakiri-Negotiations for Audience of the Mikado at Kioto; CHAPTER XXIX: Massacre of French Sailors at Sakai; CHAPTER XXX: Kioto-Audience of the Mikado; CHAPTER XXXI: Return to Yedo and Presentation of the Minister's New Credentials at Ozaka; CHAPTER XXXII: Miscellaneous Incidents-Mito Politics
- CHAPTER XXXIII: Capture of Wakamatsu and Entry of the Mikado into YedoCHAPTER XXXIV: Enomoto with the Runaway Tokugawa Ships Seizes Yezo; CHAPTER XXXV: 1869-Audience of the Mikado at Yedo; CHAPTER XXXVI: Last Days in Tokio and Departure for Home; Glossary of Japanese Words; Index; Back Cover