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040			_cLCIC Library
082			_aREF 325.3152095 J27
245			_aThe Japanese colonial empire, 1895-1945
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. _bPrinceton University Press, _cc1984
300			_ax, 540 pages : illustrations ; 23cm
505			_aPost-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
520			_aThis 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
650			_aDiplomatic relations _zEast Asia
650			_aJapan Foreign relations 1600-1868
700			_aRamon Hawley Myers _eEditor
700			_aMark R. Peattie _eEditor
700			_aJingzhi Zhen _eEditor
710			_aJoint Committee on Japanese Studies _eEditor
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