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SAMURAI WILLIAM

The Englishman Who Opened Japan

By Giles Milton

Farrar Straus Giroux. 352 pp. $24

A decade ago, I was among hundreds of attendees at the annual Japanese memorial service honoring William Adams, the English navigator who arrived in Japan in the year 1600. It took place atop a steep, narrow hill covered with cherry blossoms, where two ancient tombstones of similar shape stand side by side, one for Miura Anjin (Adams's Japanese name), the other for his Japanese wife, Yuki. The Dutch ambassador was there, along with the mayor of Yokosuka, the commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, ...

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