New 2024 translation from Japanese to English of a very insightful bestselling book on the late Edo era in Japan. The central topic and keyword for understanding the period is Jōi (expelling the foreigners) which has been rendered as “expulsionism”. Japan had existed successfully for 250 years since 1603 with minimal intervention and contact with foreigners, so the arrival of US Commodore Perry in 1853 was a shock to the system and policy of Sakoku (closed country), though many Russian ships had been coming to Japan in the fifty years before that.

00:00 Intro
00:29 Chapter Two - Bakumatsu diplomacy and Russia
04:53 The activities of 'critics'
11:34 Critics who should be marvelled at
13:37 Why did the 'Taiseiininron' arise?
16:09 From 'national learning' to Late Mito studies
28:57 The policy of expulsionism was being put into practice
33:07 The coming of Perry and the holding fast to Sakoku
41:58 Abe Masahiro and the Ansei reform
46:36 Forced signing of the Treaties

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Full title: A History of Expulsionism (Jōi) in the Bakumatsu period in Japan, 1853-1868
Author: Prof Akihiro Machida
Translator: Prof Ian Ruxton
Self-published through Amazon KDP in 2024

Original Japanese title: 攘夷の幕末史 (Jōi no Bakumatsushi)
Publisher: 講談社学術文庫 (Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko)
Revised edition: 2022

The book is available as a paperback and Kindle from amazon.com, amazon.co.jp and all the other amazons. It is also available as a hardcover from amazon.com and some other amazons.
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