Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1577. Richard Wylles writes about the people, customs and manners of Giapan in the History of Travel published in London. Mercator based map of Japan (1570) 1580. Richard Hakluyt advises the first English merchants to find a new trade route via the Northwest passage to trade wool for silver with Japan (sending two Barque ships, the George piloted by Arthur Pet and William by Charles Jackman ...
Full TItle: A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia Description English: An anti-Russian satirical map produced by a Japanese student at Keio University during the Russo-Japanese War.
British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Bix, Herbert. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (2000). online; Borg, Dorothy, ed. Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese American Relations, 1931–1941 (1973). online; Dickinson, Frederick R. War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War ...
Japan sea map. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century.During the Nara period, the term zu (図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (絵図, roughly "picture diagram").
The book discusses Japanese investment and settlement in Europe, [1] which began in the 1980s. [2] Conte-Helm was a reader of Japanese studies at the University of Northumbria. [3] The book's intended audience included both Japanese and Western persons. [4] The first two chapters discuss the history of Europe-Japan encounters. [2]
The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (日英通商航海条約, Nichi-Ei Tsūshō Kōkai Jōyaku) signed by Britain and Japan, on 16 July 1894, was a breakthrough agreement; it heralded the end of the unequal treaties and the system of extraterritoriality in Japan.
A distinct feature of the map is that Japan is surrounded by the body of a serpent-like creature, which scholars identify as a dragon. The dragon seems to shield Japan from foreign enemies. For some reason, the provinces of Oki and Tsushima are put outside of the dragon. [1] Each province is labeled with its name, grade and the size of rice fields.
Japan Society North West; The Japan Society of the UK; Japan–British Exhibition; Japan–British Society; Japanese students in the United Kingdom; Japanese–Meitei cultural relations; Jones Sewing Machine Company