Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction. Japanese Views of the Pacific: Maps and metaphors of the 'small eastern sea' in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868), Marcia Yonemoto; Japan discovers Australia: the emergence of Australia in the Japanese world view, 1540s-1900, Henry Frei. Diplomatic and Economic Relations: Sakai, East Asia's largest trading city: where did all the riches go?, Tsunoyama Sakae; A quarter century of trans-Pacific diplomacy: new Spain and Japan, 1592-1617, W. Michael Mathes; The entrenchment of the concept of 'national seclusion', Arano Yasunori; Exports of Japanese silver to China via Korea and changes in the Tokugawa monetary system during the 17th and 18th centuries, Tashiro Kazui; Early Russo-Japanese relations, George Alexander Lensen; On the nature of western progress: the journal of the Iwakura embassy, Eugene Sovial; The Meiji letters of Tsuda Ume, pioneer educator of women, Christine Chapman; East meets east: the Soejima mission to China, 1873, Wayne C. McWilliams. Expansion and Diaspora: Ayutthaya and Japan: embassies and trade in the seventeenth century, Nagazumi Yoko; The Japanese diaspora in the seventeenth century: according to Jesuit sources, Madalena Ribeiro; Strangers in a strange land, Steven W. Kohl; The opening of Korea and the Kanghwa Treaty of 1876, Brahm Swaroop Agrawai; Four Japanese: their plans for the expansion of Japan to the Philippines, Joseph M. Saniel; Japanese across the sea: features of Japanese emigration to the Russian Far East, 1875-1916, Igor R. Saveliev; Ameyuki-san: Japanese prostitutes in 19th-century America, Ichioka Yuji; The origin and development of Japanese settlement in Papua and New Guinea, 1890-1914, Iwamoto Hiromitsu. Index.