Includes history and culture of Japan, also shows Japan by regions with a guide to hotels, restaurants, shopping and transportation ; over 100 maps and illustra

A thousand years ago, most visitors to Japan would have arrived by ship at Hakata Bay, the one and only authorized gateway to Japan. Hakata was the location of

In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from

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