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Book Review

Asia

Michael R. Auslin. Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 263. $45.00.

Modern Japanese history is full of ideas that emerged from the moment of change and continue in our interpretations. The accounts, perspectives, and memories of the actors often prevail in our historiography. This is true of Japan's foreign relations despite (or because of) the long rise of Japanese studies amid the Cold War, cemented by the very strong bond between the United States and Japan. It is striking that we have had so few monographs on U.S.-Japan relations and fewer still on Meiji foreign policy. It is a familiar story: in 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry "opened" Japan from its isolation, in 1858 Consul Townsend Harris negotiated the first of the "unequal treaties," and Meiji leaders finally renegotiated those treaties in 1894.

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