Jacobeans in Japan Rowdy Englishmen are not a novelty to the Japanese, says Anthony Thwaite

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: June 23, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Samurai William:

The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

by Giles Milton

Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 14.99, 400 pp

pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

JAPANESE WORRIES about English hooligans (or "fooligans", as the word sounds to Japanese ears) go back almost 400 years. In the early 17th century, employees of the so-called "English factory" (trading post) at Hirado in south-west Japan often had drunken punch-ups in the streets; and though Ieyasu, the Shogun, had given Richard Cocks, director of the factory, the right to execute any Englishman in Japan, Cocks was naturally loath to ...

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