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A Diplomat in Japan, subtitled "The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded

A personal account of the momentous years after Japan opened to the West.

This text traces the history of three Far Eastern embassies through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline

'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the Korean invasion led by samurai and daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi re