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A Diplomat in Japan

by Ernest Satow

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Appointment as Student Interpreter at Yedo (1861)
  3. 3Chapter II — Yokohama Society, Official and Unofficial (1862)
  4. 4Chapter III — Political Conditions in Japan
  5. 5Chapter IV — Treaties — Anti-Foreign Spirit — Murder of Foreigners
  6. 6Chapter V — Richardson’s Murder — Japanese Studies
  7. 7Chapter VI — Official Visit to Yedo
  8. 8Chapter VII — Demands for Reparation — Japanese Proposal to Close t…
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Bombardment of Kagoshima
  10. 10Chapter IX — Shimonoseki; Preliminary Measures
  11. 11Chapter X — Shimonoseki — Naval Operations
  12. 12Chapter XI — Shimonoseki; Peace Concluded With Chôshiû
  13. 13Chapter XII — The Murder of Bird and Baldwin
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Ratification of the Treaties by the Mikado
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Great Fire at Yokohama
  16. 16Chapter XV — Visit to Kagoshima and Uwajima
  17. 17Chapter XVI — First Visit to Ozaka
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Reception of Foreign Ministers by the Tycoon
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Overland From Ozaka to Yedo
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Social Intercourse With Japanese Officials — Visit to…
  21. 21Chapter XX — Nanao to Ozaka Overland
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Ozaka and Tokushima
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Tosa and Nagasaki
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Downfall of the Shogunate
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Outbreak of Civil War (1868)
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Hostilities Begun at Fushimi
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — The Bizen Affair
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — First Visit to Kioto
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Harakiri — Negotiations for Audience of the Mikado…
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Massacre of French Sailors at Sakai
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Kioto — Audience of the Mikado
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Return to Yedo and Presentation of the Minister’s Ne…
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — Miscellaneous Incidents — Mito Politics
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Capture of Wakamatsu and Entry of the Mikado Into…
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — Enomoto With the Runaway Tokugawa Ships Seizes Yezo
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — 1869 — Audience of the Mikado at Yedo
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — Last Days in Tokio and Departure for Home
  38. 38Glossary of Japanese Words

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