The Japanese Discovery of America
Subtitle: A Brief Biography With Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780312163785
Subjects: Japan - History; History; History - General History; History: American; International Relations - General; Asia - Japan; Japan; Relations; United States
First sentence: It is difficult to imagine a cultural encounter more unsetting than Japan's mid-nineteenth-century confrontation with the United States.