A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English


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Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.







Bulletin


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Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)




Building Japan 1868-1876


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Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).




The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan


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Explores the interactions of 19th century American merchants with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan.




“The” Academy


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Bulletin


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