The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan—Conflicting Reports from Yokohama, 1861-1870

Munson (Asian studies, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia) surveys the rise and nature of periodical publications in Yokohama during a time when it was becoming Japan's most cosmopolitan city. Pointing out the invariably multicultural characteristics of the endeavors, he discusses Joseph Heco and the Kaigai Shinbun, Bankoku Shinbunshi and Yokohama Shinpo Moshiogusa, Albert W. Hansard and the Japan Herald, Charles Wirgman and the Japan Punch, and The Strange Case of "Fisher vs. Rickerby". Global Oriental is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Todd S. Munson, Ph.D. (2004), Indiana University, is Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia (USA). He has published multiple articles and book chapters on Japanese and American visual media culture.