Books Apr 25, 2020
by Martin Laflamme
From exotic animals to spectacles and chandeliers, Michael Laver’s “The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan” shows how well-placed gifts were essential in opening up Japan to early European traders.
Books Jul 28, 2018
Old photos illuminate a Japan now 'lost'
by Martin Laflamme
In "Lost Japan," Rosella Menegazzo brings talented daguerreotype photographer Felice Beato and his previously overlooked photos of daily life in Meiji Era Japan into the foreground.