Author : Chitoshi Yanaga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015008293824
Japan Since Perry
Chitoshi Yanaga
Japan Since Perry
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Japan Since Perry
Chitoshi Yanaga
Author : Chitoshi Yanaga
Publisher : Hamden, Conn., Archon
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Japan
ISBN : UVA:X000122565
Japan Since Perry by Chitoshi Yanaga Pdf
Yankees in the Land of the Gods
Peter Booth Wiley
Author : Peter Booth Wiley
Publisher : Viking
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040106091
Yankees in the Land of the Gods by Peter Booth Wiley Pdf
The History of US-Japan Relations
Makoto Iokibe,Tosh Minohara
Author : Makoto Iokibe,Tosh Minohara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811031847
The History of US-Japan Relations by Makoto Iokibe,Tosh Minohara Pdf
Examining the 160 year relationship between America and Japan, this cutting edge collection considers the evolution of the relationship of these two nations which straddle the Pacific, from the first encounters in the 19th century to major international shifts in a post 9/11 world. It examines the emergence of Japan in the wake of the 1905 Russo-Japanese War and the development of U.S. policies toward East Asia at the turn of the century. It goes on to study the impact of World War One in Asia, the Washington Treaty System, the issue of Immigration Issue and the deterioration of US-Japan relations in the 1930s as Japan invaded Manchuria. It also reflects on the Pacific War and the Occupation of Japan, and the country’s postwar Resurgence, democratization and economic recovery, as well as the maturing and the challenges facing the US Japan relationship as it progresses into the 21st century. This is a key read for those interested in the history of this important relationship as well as for scholars of diplomatic history and international relations.
The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West," 1853–1873
Paul Hendrix Clark
Author : Paul Hendrix Clark
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624668906
The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West," 1853–1873 by Paul Hendrix Clark Pdf
By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had already fended off similarly unwelcome intrusions by the French, the Russians, the Dutch, and the British. These Western imperialists had the power and the means to force Japan into the kinds of treaties that would effectively spell the end of Japan’s autonomy, maybe even its existence as an independent country. At the same moment, Japan was also grappling with a serious insurrection, the death of an emperor, and the death of a shogun—as well as with a series of natural disasters and associated famines. The Japanese response to this incredible series of catastrophes would permanently alter the balance of geopolitical power around the world. Drawing on the best recent scholarship, this short introductory volume examines the motivations and maneuvers of the major participants in the conflict and sets the "opening" of Japan in the context of broader global history. Selections from twenty-nine primary sources provide firsthand accounts of the event from a variety of perspectives. Several illustrations are also included, along with a note on historiographic interpretation.
Breaking Open Japan
George Feifer
Author : George Feifer
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062309310
Breaking Open Japan by George Feifer Pdf
On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of intense planning by Matthew Perry, the squadron commander. The spoils of the recent Mexican Spanish–American War had whetted a powerful American appetite for using her soaring wealth and power for commercial and political advantage. Perry's cloaking of imperial impulse in humanitarian purpose was fully matched by Japanese self–deception. High among the country's articles of faith was certainty of its protection by heavenly power. A distinguished Japanese scholar argued in 1811 that "Japanese differ completely from and are superior to the peoples of...all other countries of the world." So began one of history's greatest political and cultural clashes. In Breaking Open Japan, George Feifer makes this drama new and relevant for today. At its heart were two formidable men: Perry and Lord Masahiro Abe, the political mastermind and real authority behind the Emperor and the Shogun. Feifer gives us a fascinating account of "sealed off" Japan and shows that Perry's aggressive handling of his mission had far reaching consequences for Japan – and the United States – well into the twentieth if not twenty–first century.
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
Rhoda Blumberg
Author : Rhoda Blumberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780061971693
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg Pdf
In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal system like that of Europe in the Middle Ages. But everything began to change when American Commodore Perry and his troops sailed to the Land of the Rising Sun, bringing with them new science and technology, and a new way of life.
Japan Before Perry
Conrad Totman
Author : Conrad Totman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520254077
Japan Before Perry by Conrad Totman Pdf
By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative survey, Conrad Totman examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in detail the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs, weaving interpretations of the major themes in Japan's cultural and political development into a rich historical narrative.
Commodore Matthew Perry and the Perry Expedition to Japan
David G. Wittner
Author : David G. Wittner
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404226451
Commodore Matthew Perry and the Perry Expedition to Japan by David G. Wittner Pdf
Surveys the life of Matthew Perry, a naval officer from a seafaring family, whose accomplishments are many but who is best remembered for opening Japan to trade with other nations.
Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Francis Lister Hawks
Author : Francis Lister Hawks
Publisher : Nonsuch Publishing, Limited
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89085791754
Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan by Francis Lister Hawks Pdf
Signified their resolve through systematic expulsion, detention and execution. Perry's success, however, contrived to open up what had once been 'the curiosity of Christendom' to the nations of the world.
America Encounters Japan
William L. Neumann
Author : William L. Neumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080180485X
America Encounters Japan by William L. Neumann Pdf
Critical examination of the factors which influenced American policy concerning Japan over the last century.
Transpacific Field of Dreams
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
Author : Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780807882665
Transpacific Field of Dreams by Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu Pdf
Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and technology to the country, and Japanese students in the United States soon became avid players. In the early twentieth century, visiting Japanese warships fielded teams that played against American teams, and a Negro League team arranged tours to Japan. By the 1930s, professional baseball was organized in Japan where it continued to be played during and after World War II; it was even played in Japanese American internment camps in the United States during the war. From early on, Guthrie-Shimizu argues, baseball carried American values to Japan, and by the mid-twentieth century, the sport had become emblematic of Japan's modernization and of America's growing influence in the Pacific world. Guthrie-Shimizu contends that baseball provides unique insight into U.S.-Japanese relations during times of war and peace and, in fact, is central to understanding postwar reconciliation. In telling this often surprising history, Transpacific Field of Dreams shines a light on globalization's unlikely, and at times accidental, participants.
The Americans in Japan
Matthew Calbraith Perry,Robert Tomes
Author : Matthew Calbraith Perry,Robert Tomes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Japan
ISBN : PRNC:32101074927078
The Americans in Japan by Matthew Calbraith Perry,Robert Tomes Pdf
Japan's Modern Century
Hugh Borton
Author : Hugh Borton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066036891
Japan's Modern Century by Hugh Borton Pdf
November 2006
Inventing Japan
Ian Buruma
Author : Ian Buruma
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588362827
Inventing Japan by Ian Buruma Pdf
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo. What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage? In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage. But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many Americans, Inventing Japan is surely it.