This Seventh Volume tracking the history of Anglo-Japanese relations through leading personalities and significant themes of the day offers a classic menu totalling 47 entries divided into ten sections - opening with three studies of Meiji Era leaders, (all of whom spent time in…
First major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when religious toleration was granted in 1873 - and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day.
"Apart from the book's inherent critical value deriving from the fact that it offers a new scholarly examination of Japan-US relations in the twentieth century leading to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the greater strength of the study is to be found in the author's in-depth a…