Tales Of Foreign Settlements In Japan

Author : Harold S. Williams
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462907373

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Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan by Harold S. Williams Pdf

Here are twenty-five tales about the Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1859, and an additional ten strange stories that revoke around those times. The tales are historically accurate, sociologically significant and, most important of all, eminently readable. These Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan are the product of years of painstaking and scholarly research by a writer who is a business man and a recognized authority on the history of the Foreign Concessions in Japan, a man who has resided here for over thirty-five years.

Author : Harold S. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475705220

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Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan by Harold S. Williams Pdf

Author : Harold S. Williams
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462905010

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Shades of the Past by Harold S. Williams Pdf

Prowling among these stories about Japan one finds riffraff and gentlemen, pirates and warriors, saints and sinners, smugglers and legitimate businessmen. All those, in fact, who made up the foreign communities of Japan in the early days. Harold S. Williams tells about them with the same inimitable humor, irony, drama and whimsy that made his earlier Tales of the Foreign Settlements such a popular success. With due regard for historical accuracy he recreates those fantastic days and the furor and fun with which they were filled. Here you can enjoy the privileged social status of belonging to the Victorian Volunteer Steam Fire Engine Company of Yokohama; you can join those Japanese pirates who were the first to meet Englishmen; arbitrate Japan's first labor dispute, involving foreigners, of course; witness the massacre of forty thousand Japanese Christians; revel in Nagasaki when it was the Paris of the Far East; travel over the Tokaido when it was the most picturesque and colorful of the world's highways; watch at close range each gruesome detail of an act of harakiri; dive for sunken treasures; watch the world's largest wooden vessel burn to the water line; marvel at one of the greatest advertising feats of all time.

Author : Harold S. Williams
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462902354

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Foreigners in Mikadoland by Harold S. Williams Pdf

This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859. It tells of the imposters, the eccentrics, and the scandals, no less than the achievements of the scholars, the merchants, and the diplomats who contributed so much to the development of modern Japan. Here you will meet Townsend Harris, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan, the Grand Duke Alexander, and many other less well known, but just as interesting figures such as the energetic Rev. Bailey, the remarkable Mr. McLeod, and the Misses Butterfly and Chrysanthemum. All these events are portrayed in a series of chapters, arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order, each woven around some of the happenings of those times. Carefully researched, all of these events are historically accurate in every detail, and are written in Mr. Williams' highly enjoyable style.

Author : Toyo Takata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4386860

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Nikkei Legacy by Toyo Takata Pdf

Author : Yuki Allyson Honjo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134279814

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Japan's Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports by Yuki Allyson Honjo Pdf

This is the first in-depth study of the early trial-and-error experiences of contracting between Japanese and western merchants trading in the Japanese Treaty Ports in the eighteen year period immediately following the opening of the ports in 1859. Fundamental to the equation were the inevitable east-west cultural and legal ambiguities that impacted on the traders. The learning curve for both westerners and Japanese regarding the nature and application of western contracting law was predictably difficult, tortuous and open to constant misunderstanding. Nevertheless, it was within such a framework that the principal benchmarks for trade with Japan were set down and which, in essence, have lasted to the present day.

Author : Keiko Tamura
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 064227651X

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Forever Foreign by Keiko Tamura Pdf

When a 21-year-old medical student from Melbourne, Harold S. Williams, arrived in Japan in 1919 to practice the language over his summer holiday, he never imagined his stay would eventually extend over 60 years. He took up a job with a Scottish trading firm in the cosmopolitan port city of Kobe, but his lifelong passion became collecting records documenting the lives of foreign residents. They are now held at the National Library of Australia as a highly sought-after collection. Keiko Tamura constructs a vivid account of the experience of Williams and three other Westerners, presenting a compelling picture of expatriate experiences and life in Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. Against the backdrop of dramatic social and cultural change, Forever Foreign: Expatriate Lives in Historical Kobe provides a valuable insight into the varying influence of Western residents in Japan. Foreshadowing the irrevocable changes to a unique way of life that was brought by World War II, Tamura pays moving tribute to individuals who, either through a sense of adventure or by the forces of circumstance, lived their lives in a foreign culture.

Author : Eric C. Han
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175420

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Rise of a Japanese Chinatown by Eric C. Han Pdf

"Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino–Japanese War of 1894–1895 to the normalization of Sino–Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. Eric C. Han narrates the paradoxical story of how, during periods of war and peace, Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state.This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the construction of Chinese and Japanese identities and on Chinese migration and settlement. Using local newspapers, Chinese and Japanese government records, memoirs, and conversations with Yokohama residents, it retells the familiar story of Chinese nation building in the context of Sino-Japanese relations. But it builds on existing works by directing attention as well to non-elite Yokohama Chinese, those who sheltered revolutionary activists and served as an audience for their nationalist messages. Han also highlights contradictions between national and local identifications of these Chinese, who self-identified as Yokohama-ites (hamakko) without claiming Japaneseness or denying their Chineseness. Their historical role in Yokohama’s richly diverse cosmopolitan past can offer insight into a future, more inclusive Japan."

Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0719019141

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Japanese History & Culture from Ancient to Modern Times by John W. Dower Pdf

Author : Marietta Chicorel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UCSC:32106020263247

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Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections by Marietta Chicorel Pdf

Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674576411

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Mirror in the Shrine by Robert A. Rosenstone Pdf

Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the late 1800s, these stories evoke the immediacy of daily experience in Meiji, Japan, a nation still feudal in many of its habits yet captivating to Westerners for its gentleness, beauty, and pure charm. Illustrated.

Author : Fred G. Notehelfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400854226

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American Samurai by Fred G. Notehelfer Pdf

The book reveals how a man on the way to being a misfit in the United States became the heroic American samurai." It discusses Janes as one of the few Westerners allowed to live in the interior and as the "father" of the Kumamoto Band, which became the dominant wing of Japanese Protestantism and a significant modernizing force. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Leonard Hammersmith
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 087338590X

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Spoilsmen in a "flowery Fairyland" by Leonard Hammersmith Pdf

An examination of the first 11 US ministers to Japan, exploring the information, expectations and values they took with them and how they shaped US diplomacy with Japan in the late 19th century. It shows that the issue of trade was an ongoing 19th-century problem.

Author : A. B. Mitford
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1420934961

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Tales of Old Japan by A. B. Mitford Pdf

Compiled by a British diplomat and published in 1871, "Tales of Old Japan" is an anthology of short stories that makes earlier centuries of Japanese life vibrantly immediate to the contemporary reader. They focus on various facets of everyday existence in ancient Japan, from numerous rituals, like hara-kiri and marriage, to sermons and fairy tales indicative of desirable traits and warnings needed in that time. From tales of samurai revenge to the plots of Noh theatre plays, "Tales of Old Japan" was regarded as an authoritative text on Japanese culture and literature and greatly influenced Western perceptions of Japanese history and society for many years. Today, this compilation is still valuable for its accessibility and absorbingly entertaining view of ancient Japan.

Author : Lord Redesdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798654169969

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Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale Pdf

The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiledfrom official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travellers. Ofthe inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, theirsuperstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move-all theseare as yet mysteries. Nor is this to be wondered at. The first Western men who came incontact with Japan-I am speaking not of the old Dutch and Portuguese traders andpriests, but of the diplomatists and merchants of eleven years ago-met with a coldreception. Above all things, the native Government threw obstacles in the way of anyinquiry into their language, literature, and history. The fact was that the Tycoon'sGovernment-with whom alone, so long as the Mikado remained in seclusion in hissacred capital at Kiôto, any relations were maintained-knew that the Imperial purplewith which they sought to invest their chief must quickly fade before the strong sunlightwhich would be brought upon it so soon as there should be European linguists capableof examining their books and records.