Comprehensively delineates the course of Japanese political and cultural developments from prehistory until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
E. Leslie Williams began his study of East Asia by working as an ecclesiastical representative in Taiwan for two years. He was then a Japanese Ministry of Education graduate research scholar at Kyûshû University, Japan, where he studied Edo period history for two years. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages at Clemson University, USA.
