Publisher's Synopsis
Here are twenty-five tales about the Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1859, and an additional ten strange stories that revoke around those times. The tales are historically accurate, sociologically significant and, most important of all, eminently readable.These TALES OF FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS IN JAPAN are the product of years of painstaking and scholarly research by a writer who is a business man and a recognised authority on the history of the Foreign Concessions in Japan, a man who has resided here for over thirty-five years.
