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Native American in the Land of the Shogun

Native American in the Land of the Shogun

Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan

Frederik L. Schodt

Author/Translator

The true story of a half-Chinook, half-Scot adventurer who entered feudal Japan in 1848 and helped pave the way for its modernization.


How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in Nagasaki, the intelligent, well-educated MacDonald fascinated the Japanese and became one of their first teachers of English and Western ways. 


Based on primary research in Japan and North America, this book chronicles the events leading to MacDonald's journey and his later struggle to obtain recognition at home.

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PUBLISH DATE

5/1/03

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9781880656778

$19.95

GENRE

Nonfiction

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9781611725414

$19.95

DIMENSIONS

6 x 9"

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9781880656785

$39.95

# OF PAGES

448

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About the Author(s)

Frederik L. Schodt

Frederik L. Schodt

Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, is an author and translator of impressive breadth. He has written extensively on Japanese manga, as well as on pop culture, technology, and history. 

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