Japan's Northern Frontier: A Preliminary Study in Colonization and Expansion with Special Reference to the Relations of Japan and Russia

Acknowledgments Introduction Contents Part One: The Frontier from Its Origins to the Meiji Restoration 1 Early History of the Frontier 2 The Rise of a Political Frontier 3 Internal Administration 4 The Delimitation of the Frontier Part Two: The Frontier As A Colony: Hokkaido and the Kaitakushi 5 Establishment of Colonial Government 6 The Farmer-Soldier 7 Finances and Industrial Development 8 The United States Mission and the Kaitakushi 9 The End of Colonial Government Conclusion Appendices ONE: A Note, with Bibliography, on the Discovery of Yezo by the Western World TWO: The Texts of the Treaty of Shimoda (1855), the Russo-Japanese Frontier Convention of 1867, and the Treaty of St. Petersburg (1875) Bibliography Index