Continental and Colonial Policy of Meiji Japan as Seen from France: Voyages and Books of Reginald Kann
Abstract
This article presents two books by a French journalist and analyst Reginald Kann (1876-1925) “Diary of a War Correspondent on the Far East: Japan, Manchuria, Korea” (1905) and| “Report on Formosa” (1907; published 2001). Accredited with Japanese Manchurian Army during the war with Russia later he visited Taiwan by the order of French Colonial and Navy Ministries Kann, collected and analyzed data on Japanese army, military, continental and colonial policy, military and economic potential of the first Japanese colony.
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For citations:
Molodiakov V. Continental and Colonial Policy of Meiji Japan as Seen from France: Voyages and Books of Reginald Kann. Yearbook Japan. 2017;46:181-195. (In Russ.)
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