Britain and Japan: a modern analysis.(Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World: Responses to Common Issues)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | December 1, 2003| | Copyright

Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World: Responses to Common Issues. Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook, editors. Routledge Curzon. [pounds sterling]65.00. ISBN 0-415-30414-8.

During April 1600 the 160-ton Dutch merchantman, Liefde, came in sight of the coast of Japan. Aboard was the Kent-born pilot-major, William Adam (1564-1620), who was to be the first European to set foot in the Japan of Emperor Goyozei, a land then in the grip of civil war. For centuries real power had been in the hands of the sei-i-tai shogun--the barbarian-conquering generalissimos--and Adams ...

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