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Author Burke-Gaffney, Brian.

Title Nagasaki : the British experience, 1854-1945 / Brian Burke-Gaffney.

Publication Info. Kent [England] : Global Oriental, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages, 32 pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), map
Japanese language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
Contents Historical background -- The turbulent first decade -- Obstacles to coexistence -- Life, work and recreation -- Mitsubishi connections -- Japanese wives in fiction and real life -- Golden years -- Downhill to the Second World War -- And in the end -- Gone but not forgotten.
Summary "This volume provides the first full-length account in English of British-Japanese interchange in Nagasaki, Japan's closest port to the Asian continent, the only 'open window' to the world during the long period of national seclusion (1641-1859), and victim of an atomic bombing in the summer of 1945"--Jacket.
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Subject Bombardment of Nagasaki-shi (Nagasaki-shi, Japan : 1945)
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.
Great Britain.
International relations.
Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.
Great Britain -- History.
History.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1854-1945
1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Burke-Gaffney, Brian. Nagasaki. Kent, [England] : Global Oriental, ©2009 1906876134 (OCoLC)461867114
ISBN 9789004212879 (electronic book)
9004212876 (electronic book)
1906876134
9781906876135
9781906876289
1906876282
Standard No. 9786612486166