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Japan encountered : a brief (and highly-selective) survey of famous Westerners in the land of the Rising Sun / Scott Wright.
Author
Wright, Scott, 1942-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [1996]
©1996
Description
vii, 185 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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DS832.7.A1 W75 1996
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Subject(s)
Noncitizens
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Japan
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Biography
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Japan
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Officials and employees, Noncitizen
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Biography
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Japan
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Civilization
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Western influences
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Getty AAT genre
collective biographies
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
ch. 1. Saint Francis Xavier : architect of Japan's Christian century
ch. 2. Will Adams : Renaissance adventurer in Japan
ch. 3. Dr. Englebert Kaempfer : early observer and commentator
ch. 4. Commodore Matthew C. Perry : re-opening Japan to the West
ch. 5. Townsend Harris : romance and reality in early U.S.-Japan diplomatic relations
ch. 6. Lafcadio Hearn : homeless wanderer and interpreter of Japanese culture
ch. 7. Isabella Bird : 19th century traveler and author
ch. 8. William Smith Clark : teacher and role model from the West
ch. 9. Frank Lloyd Wright : a case study in cross-cultural influence
ch. 10. Arthur Waley : translator of The tale of Genji
Historical interlude
Parallels and conflicts : backgrounds of the war between the U.s. and Japan
ch. 11. Joseph Grew : struggling against the flow of history
ch. 12. General Douglas MacArthur : the post war occupation
ch. 13. Ruth Benedict : an academic's wartime service : the writing of The chrysanthemum and the sword
ch. 14. James Michener : changing postwar attitudes regarding Japan
ch. 15. Edwin Reischauer : scholar and diplomat
ch. 16. Baseball and sumo : American athletes in Japan and especially Jesse Kuhaulua ("Takamiyama"), first American sumo wrestler.
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ISBN
0761804277 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780761804277 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0761804285 ((paper ; : alk. paper))
9780761804284 ((paper ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
96024526
OCLC
34788824
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