The Japanese Discovery of America (Repost)

Peter Duus (Ph. D., Harvard University) is the William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University. He has published widely on the history of modern Japan and is the editor of volume 6 of The Cambridge History of Japan. His most recent scholarly publication is The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (1995). Duus has spent many years in Japan, most recently as a Fulbright research scholar in 1994-1995.