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As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States
As We Saw Them The First Japanese Embassy to the United States Author:Masao Miyoshi An entertaining and adventurous story of discovery, this historical rendering presents the Japanese experience of American culture based on the records and travelogues of Japanese envoys sent to the United States in 1860. Scores of samurai left copious records of the event, detailing the travelers' accounts of shopping at Tiffany's and some dist... more »urbing encounters with xenophobia. Illuminated are the startling beginnings of the attitudes and judgments that have helped form American and Japanese perceptions of each other ever since. This retrospective aims at a more precise understanding of the similarities and differences between Japanese and Westerners, providing a revealing critique of the roots of intolerance, and offering continued efforts at international and intercultural understanding.« less
ISBN-13: 9781589880238 ISBN-10: 1589880234 Publication Date: 6/1/2005 Pages:232 Edition:1st Paul Dry Books E Rating: