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Excerpt from Around the World Through Japan But in spite of the measures taken by the Tokugawa Shogun to keep all knowledge of passing events from the foreigners, Kaempfer, who went out in 1690 as a surgeon in the service of the Dutch East India Company and remained over two years in the Dutch settlement, was enabled to gather the materials for his History of Japan, which was published in English in 1728. From this time until Commodore Perry secured the opening of three ports by the treaty of 1854 with the Shogun, or Taikun, little was added to the world's knowledge of Japan. In fact, it was not until the lst of July, 1859, that Hakodate, Nagasaki, and Kanagawa (yokohama) were opened to foreign commerce, while Niigata was only opened on 1st of January, 1860, and Hyogo three years later. Brit ish subjects were permitted to reside in Yedo (tokyo) from lst January, 1862, and in Osaka from the following January. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.