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Japan and the Illustrated London News

2006
Japan and the Illustrated London News

Author: Terry Bennett

Publisher: Brill

ISBN: UOM:39015066874010

Category: History

Page: 411

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The Illustrated London News, launched in 1842, was the world's first illustrated newspaper and an immediate success. Its first report on Japan, however, was not until eleven years later when as a result of Commodore Perry's much discussed plan to 'open' Japan it published a substantial piece entitled 'The United States Expedition to Japan' in the issue of 7 May 1853, opening with the portentous words: 'The presence of a large and powerful American fleet in the Eastern Seas possesses an unexpected interest at the present moment...' This volume concludes in 1899, the year of ratification of the ending of the Unequal Treaties between Japan and the Great Powers, which had major implications for Japan and its nascent empire; yet the ILN failed to make any reference to it. Instead, its one report for the final year of the nineteenth century was on the launch of the British-built battleship Asahi, which was to play a major role in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the forthcoming Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) - a war which once again was to preoccupy the ILN pages. Thus, Japan and The Illustrated London News provides readers and researchers for the first time with a 'one-stop' access point to the complete record of reported events relating to Japan in the critical half century following its opening to the West.

An Outcast of the Islands

2018-09-20
An Outcast of the Islands

Author: Joseph Conrad

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

ISBN: 9783734020278

Category: Fiction

Page: 282

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Reproduction of the original: An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad

The Illustrated London News. Welcome Home Number

2021-09-09
The Illustrated London News. Welcome Home Number

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

ISBN: 1013402073

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Page: 84

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