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12
Gateway
to
Japan
dragged
a
reluctant
Japan
into
the
modern
world
and
turned
a
hide-
bound
feudal
society
into
a
modern
nation-state.
1
Warships
on
the
Horizon
What
few
people
realize
is
that
Perry’s
arrival
was
not
the
¤rst
time
that
such
a
scenario
had
played
out
upon
Japanese
soil.
The
events
of
1853
were
a
close
replay
of
an
equally
momentous
occasion
some
twelve
hundred
years
earlier.
The
year
was
664,
and
the
location
was
Tsushima,
a
mountainous
isle
(actually,
two
isles
separated
by
a
nar-
Map
2
.
Japan
in
East
Asia,
7th
c.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. War
- Chapter 2. Diplomacy
- Chapter 3. Piracy
- Chapter 4. Trade
- Chapter 5. Medieval Hakata A Forward-Looking Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author