Japan and the Pacific, 1540-1920 / edited by Mark Caprio and Matsuda Koichirō.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Maps and metaphors of the 'small eastern sea' in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) / Marcia Yonemoto -- 2. Japan discovers Australia : the emergence of Australia in the Japanese world-view, 1540s-1900 / Henry Frei -- 3. Sakai, East Asia's largest trading city : where did all the riches go? / Tsunyoyama Sakae -- 4. A quarter century of trans-Pacific diplomacy : new Spain and Japan, 1592-1617 / W. Michael Mathes -- 5. The entrenchment of the concept of 'national seclusion' / Arano Yasunori -- 6. Exports of Japan's silver to China via Korea and changes in the Tokugawa monetary system during the 17th and 18th centuries / Tashiro Kazui -- 7. Early Russo-Japanese relations / George Alexander Lensen -- 8. On the nature of western progress : the journal of the Iwakura Embassy / Eugene Soviak -- 9. The Meiji letters of Tsuda Ume, pioneer educator of women / Christine Chapman -- 10. East meets east : the Soejima mission to China, 1873 / Wayne C. McWilliams -- 11. Ayutthaya and Japan : embassies and trade in the seventeenth century / Nagazumi Yoko -- 12. The Japanese diaspora in the seventeenth century : according to Jesuit sources / Madalena Ribeiro -- 13. Strangers in a strange land : Japanese castaways and the opening of Japan / Stephen W. Kohl -- 14. The opening of Korea and the Kanghwa treaty of 1876 / Brahm Swaroop Agarwal -- 15. Four Japanese : their plans for the expansion of Japan to the Philippines / Josefa M. Saniel -- 16. Japanese across the sea : features of Japanese emigration to the Russian far east, 1875-1916 / Igor R. Saveliev -- 17. Ameyuki-san : Japanese prostitutes in nineteenth-century America / Ichioka Yuji -- 18. The origin and development of Japanese settlement in Papua and New Guinea, 1890-1914 / Iwamoto Hiromitsu.

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