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Bruce L. Batten. Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500–1300. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 183. $25.00.

This is the story of Hakata, a bay on the north shore of Kyushu, the westernmost of Japan's main islands. Because of its proximity to the Asian mainland and its excellence as a harbor, Hakata served as the principal entry point or "gateway" to Japan during much of the country's ancient and medieval periods. The story of Hakata is clearly of major importance to premodern Japanese history. But it has been told by historians (at least those writing in English) largely in terms of its high points—Hakata was, for example, the main focus of attack of the Mongol invasions in the late thirteenth century—rather than as a continuous record of affairs in western Japan, especially foreign relations, over a long period of time. In this book, Bruce L. Batten narrates and analyses the Hakata story for eight hundred years, providing us with a detailed and coherent picture of Hakata in both Japanese and East Asian history during that time.

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