A Diplomat in Japan : The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Appointment as student interpreter at Yedo; 2. Yokohama society, official and unofficial; 3. Political conditions in Japan; 4. Treaties, anti-foreign spirit, murder of foreigners; 5. Richardson's murder, Japanese studies; 6. Official visit to Yedo; 7. Demands for reparation; 8. Bombardment of Kagoshima; 9. Shimonoseki: preliminary measures; 10. Shimonoseki: naval operations; 11. Shimonoseki: peace concluded with Choshiu; 12. The murder of Bird and Baldwin; 13. Ratification of the treaties by the Mikado; 14. Great fire at Yokohama; 15. Visit to Kagoshima and Uwajima; 16. First visit to Ozaka; 17. Reception of foreign ministers by the tycoon; 18. Overland from Ozaka to Yedo; 19. Social intercourse with Japanese officials; 20. Nanao to Ozaka overland; 21. Ozaka and Tokushima; 22. Tosa and Nagasaki; 23. Downfall of the Shogunate; 24. Outbreak of civil war (1868); 25. Hostilities begun at Yedo and Fushimi; 26. The Bizen affair; 27. First visit to Kioto; 28. Harakiri; 29. Massacre of French sailors at Sakai; 30. Kioto; 31. Return to Yedo; 32. Miscellaneous incidents; 33. Capture of Wakamatsu and entry of the Mikado into Yedo; 34. Enomoto with the runaway Tokugawa ships seizes Yezo; 35. 1869: audience of the Mikado at Yedo; 36. Last days in Tokio and departure for home; Glossary; Index.