TY  - BOOK
T1  - Mutsu Munemitsu and his time
T2  - Japan library.
A1  - Okazaki, Hisahiko 1930-2014
A2  - Noda, Makito
LA  - English
LA  - Japanese
PP  - Tokyo
PB  - Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
YR  - 2018
ED  - First English edition.
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312503000
AB  - "Toward the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted from his home Kish?au-han as a result of his father's defeat in a power struggle. To avenge this, Mutsu bolstered his talent to become a man of "genius and learning in equal measure." He joined the Kobe Naval Training Center founded by Katsu Kaish?au and, later, Kaientai, a trading and shipping company and private navy founded and managed by Sakamoto Ry?aoma before the Meiji Restoration was accomplished. During the Meiji era, Mutsu fully exercised his extraordinary ability, including working to revise unequal treaties with Western powers as foreign minister. In his last days, he scrambled to end the First Sino-Japanese War; his efforts resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki with favorable terms for Japan. Mutsu also helped Japan ride out the subsequent wave of the Tripartite Intervention from Russia, France, and Germany. This book's author, a career diplomat himself, traces the footsteps of modern Japan's diplomacy by reviewing the philosophical and political journey of this extraordinary diplomat who protected the dignity of Japan as a modern nation throughout his professional life" -- United summary from book.
OP  - 350
NO  - "The original English translation is based on the paperback version of 'Mutsu Munemitsu to sono jidai,' published by PHP Institute, Inc. in 2003; first published in hardcover by the same publisher in 1999"--title page verso.
NO  - Includes bibliographical references.
CN  - DS884.M87 .Ok1 2018
SN  - 9784866580258 (hbk.)
KW  - Mutsu, Munemitsu : 1844-1897.
KW  - Diplomats : Japan : Biography.
KW  - Japan : Foreign relations : 1868-1912.
ER  -