(Ebook) A Diplomat in Japan: the Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored by Satow, Ernest Mason ISBN 9780893469610, 9781933330167, 9784896842890, 0893469610, 1933330163, 4896842898

(Ebook) A Diplomat in Japan: the Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored by Satow, Ernest Mason ISBN 9780893469610, 9781933330167, 9784896842890, 0893469610, 1933330163, 4896842898

Contents; i. Appointment as Student Interpreter at Yedo 1; ii. Yokohama Society, Official and Unofficial 7; iii. Political Conditions in Japan 19; iv. TreatiesAnti-Foreign SpiritMurder ofForeigners 29; v. Richardson's MurderJapanese Studies 39; vi. Official Visit to Yedo 53; vii. Demands for ReparationJapanese Proposals toClose the PortsPayment of the inedmnity 65; viii. Bombardment of Kagoshima 79; ix. Shimonoseki; Preliminary Measures 91; x. ShimonosekiNaval Operations 99; xi. ShimonosekiPeace Concluded with Choshiu 115; xii. The Murder of Bird and Baldwin 135.;Based on the author's detailed diary, personal encounters, and keen memory, this book is a record of the inner history of the critical years of social and political upheaval that accompanied Japan's first encounters with the West around the time of the Meiji Restoration.