The Japanese colonial empire, 1895-1945

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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, c1984Description: x, 540 pages : illustrations ; 23cmISBN:

9780691102221

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REF 325.3152095 J27

Contents:

Post-Hideyoshi Normalization The Lens of Recognition: Diplomacy in the Legitimation of the Bakufu The World Through Binoculars: Bakufu Intelligence and Japanese Security in an Unstable East Asia Through the Looking-Glass World of Protocol: Mirror to an Ideal World

Summary: This book seeks to describe how Japan manipulated existing diplomatic channels to ensure national security. Rather, far from aiming at seclusion, Japan's diplomacy in the seventeenth century was orchestrated to achieve certain objectives, both outside the country and inside it. The aim was to build Japan into an autonomous center of its own. Since the country was "closed," elaborate and expensive foreign embassies were obliged to make the journey to Edo. Countries which were perceived as potential threats, such as Portugal and Spain, were excluded from this process. Only those such as the Chinese and the Dutch, with whom trade was recognized as desirable, were allowed a supervised presence in Japan itself. Closing the gates to Japan was not the object. Rather, carefully judging just when they should be open and shut was the aim

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DONATION	LAPULAPU-CEBU INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE REFERENCE SECTION	REF 325.3152095 J27 1984 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		005389

Post-Hideyoshi Normalization
The Lens of Recognition: Diplomacy in the Legitimation of the Bakufu
The World Through Binoculars: Bakufu Intelligence and Japanese Security in an Unstable East Asia
Through the Looking-Glass World of Protocol: Mirror to an Ideal World

This book seeks to describe how Japan manipulated existing diplomatic channels to ensure national security. Rather, far from aiming at seclusion, Japan's diplomacy in the seventeenth century was orchestrated to achieve certain objectives, both outside the country and inside it. The aim was to build Japan into an autonomous center of its own. Since the country was "closed," elaborate and expensive foreign embassies were obliged to make the journey to Edo. Countries which were perceived as potential threats, such as Portugal and Spain, were excluded from this process. Only those such as the Chinese and the Dutch, with whom trade was recognized as desirable, were allowed a supervised presence in Japan itself. Closing the gates to Japan was not the object. Rather, carefully judging just when they should be open and shut was the aim

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