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| #1498473 in Books | Paul Dry Books, Inc. | 2005-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.60 x5.40l,.66 | File type: PDF | 232 pages | ||8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| First Encounters|By Etienne RP|In 1953 Commodore Perry's black ships forced Japanese ports open to foreigners and imposed upon the Shogun the Convention of Kanagawa establishing formal diplomatic relations between Japan and the United States. This was followed in 1858 by the US-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce, the first in a series of unequal treaties which allowed the esta|From Publishers Weekly|Miyoshi presents the Japanese experience of American culture based on the records and travelogues of Japanese envoys sent to the U.S. in 1860. Photos. |Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.|
"Masao Miyoshi's masterful account is, by turns, alarming and hilarious as two cultures meet at the court of President James Buchanan. Their mutual incomprehension is, alas, still relevant as inscrutable East fails to make sense of mysterious West, and vice versa."—Gore Vidal
"Miyoshi has given a marvelous and revealing account of a dramatic case of confrontation of cultures and civilizations. It yields much insight into our own society, as seen from ...
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