Indeks : 220-23 ; Hlm. : 214-15 ; The civilation of Japan is an ancient one, and by the time the first Western visitors arrived in 1542 the Japanese people were as hughly educated as any in the world and enjoyed as sophisticatred culture. From sixteenth century on the country’s history was shaped by a tension between its people’s thirst to understand foreign institutions and customs and their determination to assert and preserve its native traditions. In this book, James Huffman tells the rich anf dynamic story of yhis history through a fascinating range of primary source documents.