Japan and the Pacific, 1540-1920 : Threat and Opportunity Book

1	Maps and metaphors of the 'small eastern sea' in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)	1
2	Japan discovers Australia : the emergence of Australia in the Japanese world-view, 1540s-1900	21
3	Sakai, East Asia's largest trading city : where did all the riches go?	49
4	A quarter century of trans-Pacific diplomacy : new Spain and Japan, 1592-1617	57
5	The entrenchment of the concept of 'national seclusion'	87
6	Exports of Japan's silver to China via Korea and changes in the Tokugawa monetary system during the 17th and 18th centuries	109
7	Early Russo-Japanese relations	127
8	On the nature of western progress : the journal of the Iwakura Embassy	163
9	The Meiji letters of Tsuda Ume, pioneer educator of women	191
10	East meets east : the Soejima mission to China, 1873	199
11	Ayutthaya and Japan : embassies and trade in the seventeenth century	241
12	The Japanese diaspora in the seventeenth century : according to Jesuit sources	259
13	Strangers in a strange land : Japanese castaways and the opening of Japan	291
14	The opening of Korea and the Kanghwa treaty of 1876	305
15	Four Japanese : their plans for the expansion of Japan to the Philippines	323
16	Japanese across the sea : features of Japanese emigration to the Russian far east, 1875-1916	335
17	Ameyuki-san : Japanese prostitutes in nineteenth-century America	355
18	The origin and development of Japanese settlement in Papua and New Guinea, 1890-1914	377