Table of Contents

Volume I. Introduction by W. G. Beasley Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy 1853-1868(The Perry Covention Documents 1-9) W. G Beasley (Ed.)London, OUP, 1955 William E Griffis, Matthew Calbraith Perry Ch.XXIII-XXXVI Volume II. Aaron H. Palmer Origin of the Mission to Japan. Documents and facts illustrating the origin of the mission to Japan, authorized by the United States Government, May 10,1851 Robert Tomes Americans in Japan - An abridgement of the government narrative of the United States expedition to Japan under Commodore Perry Volume III. J. W. Spalding The Japanese Expedition: Japan and Around the World - an account of three visits to the Japanese Empire Volume IV. Henry E. Graff (ed.), Bluejackets with Perry in Japan. A day-by-day account kept by Master Mate John R.C.Lewis and Cabin Boy William B.Allen Volume V. John Glendy Sproston The Private Journal of John Glendy Sproston Volume VI.S. Wells Williams A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1853-54 Volume VII. Roger Pineau The Japan Expedition, 1852-54. The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry Volume VIII. 1. Ken Yamaguchi Kinse Shiriaku; a history of Japan from the first visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the capture of Hakodate by the Mikado forces in 1869 2. Ernest Satow (tr.) Japan 1853-1864 or Genji Yume Monogatari 3. Kojimo Matajiro, Commodore Perry's Expedition to Hakodate

About the Author

W.G. Beasley is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.