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By Mark R. Peattie
"[Peattie’s] remarkably readable narrative is going some distance past army and diplomatic history." ―Choice
"Peattie’s finished and interesting e-book provides drastically to our wisdom of colonial governments quite often, the japanese empire particularly, and the worldwide importance of the Pacific Islands." ―The modern Pacific"The importance of this e-book by way of Peattie, a lifelong pupil of the japanese empire, is that it brings Japan’s 30-year imperial event within the Pacific out of the shadows eventually. whereas necessary if you happen to have a unique curiosity within the substantial a part of Micronedia that Japan governed, the author’s contribution has an value for others to boot. It deals a gently researched and penetrating look at the center and soul of 1 of the only a few non-Western colonial powers within the Pacific." ―Francis Hezel, Journal of Pacific History
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The voyage built on grandiose visions of trade and profit, had accomplished very little, for, as Suzuki was later to write, ''the cruising trade is not really suitable to the South Sea islands. html1/20/2009 6:44:13 PM page_20 < previous page page_20 next page > Page 20 company. Within a few months Taguchi was obliged to pay back most of the monies issued to him and to surrender control of the company and the Tenyu * Maru, both of which the government put up for sale. At this point, Taguchi leaves our story.
7 Other enthusiastic young expansionists followed Shiga aboard Japanese warships. 8 The thought that not all the islands of that ocean were entirely spoken for appealed to Shiga and to other Japanese pioneers in the Pacific, though the German annexation of the Marshall Islands in 1885 made it obvious that the number of island groups as yet unclaimed was rapidly shrinking. html1/20/2009 6:44:10 PM page_9 < previous page page_9 next page > Page 9 might be planted and trade and settlement follow. Miyake Setsurei, who sailed aboard the Hiei on its training voyage into the Pacific in 1891, recalled years later that the hunger for territory in the Pacific had been so strong that the ship's officers had searched their charts in vain for unclaimed islands.
11 Gunboat imperialists of the nineteenth century were probably delighted with such a pretext for a little territorial plundering. The loss of a couple of missionaries to a savage mob, an imagined insult to the flag by an upstart local potentate, the murder of some fishermen by ''primitive islanders" were viewed as a small price to pay for the excuse to take over a harbor, an island, or even some atolls. html1/20/2009 6:44:10 PM page_10 < previous page page_10 next page > Page 10 patch two very young ministry employeesGoto * Taketaro* and Suzuki Tsunenori (Keikun)who were to proceed to the Marshalls aboard the Ada (chartered for the purpose), ostensibly to investigate the incident and to secure an apology from the chiefs responsible.