TY - BOOK AU - Caprio,Mark AU - Matsuda,Kōichirō TI - Japan and the Pacific, 1540-1920 T2 - The Pacific world SN - 0754636836 AV - DU68.J3 J36 2006 U1 - 327.52018230903 22 PY - 2006///] CY - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate/Variorum KW - Japanese KW - Pacific Area N1 - 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 ER -