| Aliens in the East: A New History of Japan's Foreign Intercourse The author examines the uneven course of Japan's foreign relations, from the earliest struggles of the Dutch, Portuguese and British to establish trade with the empire, to the diplomatic problems of the of the 1930s. Harry Emerson Wildes was a historian and sociologist. He served in the Pacific as a political advisor to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers during World War II. |