Bøker av Grant K. Goodman

The history of Dutch influence on Japan during the so-called "closed centuries" between 1640 and 1853. Dutch maritime traders provided the only commercial link which Japan maintained with the West, and were thus the sole channel for Western ideas and knowledge to reach neo-Confucian society.

As an Army lieutenant, the author served in Tokyo as an intelligence officer. He translated thousands of letters, interviews, and other documents by Japanese citizens of all kinds, and came to know, as few Americans could, the hearts and minds of a defeated people as they moved slowly to democracy. This is a chronicle of his experience in Japan.