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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index
