Get your special offer for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history -------------- 00:00 Introduction 04:20 The End of the Beginning 10:31 Japan Meets The World 18:00 Business Opportunities 20:33 Meat 24:57 Upgrading The Military 30:22 Rebellion 37:11 Big in the West 44:36 Climbing the Ladder 48:15 Tension with the West 52:58 The First Rank of Nations Written by Thomas Lockley. Check out his book on Yasuke: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Geoffrey-Girard/dp/1335044981/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=yasuke&qid=1615050333&sr=8-1 Edited and narrated by David Kelly. Art by Matthew Cartwright. — Music courtesy of:- Epidemic Sound Artlist.io Bibliography: Beasley, William. 1995. Japan Encounters the Barbarian. Japanese Travellers in America and Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Bird, Isabella. 2006. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. Saitama: Japan and Stuff Press. Checkland, Olive. 2003. Japan and Britain after 1859 – Creating Cultural Bridges. London and New York: Routledge. Cwiertka, Katarzyna. 2006. Modern Japanese Cuisine. Food, Power and National Identity. London: Reaktion Books. De Coningh, Assendelft. 2012. A Pioneer in Yokohama. A Dutchman’s Adventures in the New Treaty Port. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing. Downer, Lesley. 2003. Madame Sadayakko. The Geisha who Bewitched the West. New York: Gotham Books. Esposito, Gabriele. 2020. Japanese Armies 1868-1877. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. Fukuzawa, Yukichi and Kiyooka, Eiichi (tr.) 1966. The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. New York: Columbia University Press. Gardiner, Michael. 2007. At the Edge of Empire. The Life of Thomas Blake