By KUNIO OZAWA/ Staff Writer
January 19, 2023 at 07:00 JST
A letter begins with a subject line in red ink that states, “About burning barbarians to death.” It makes clear that the sender, Tokugawa Nariaki, is angered by the audacity of the United States to send warships and demand that Japan open up its ports to foreign trade. He writes about his desire to kill the U.S. delegates with swords. (Kunio Ozawa)
KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture--A feudal warlord was so incensed by the temerity of the United States in the 19th century to dispatch warships to Japan and demand the isolated country open its ports to foreign trade that he plotted to seize one of the vessels and kill the high-ranking delegates on board, a letter from the period shows. [Read More]
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