"If we take the initiative, we will dominate- if we do not, we will be dominated. Thus we should embrace the *nanban* technologies and make them our own." -Shimazu Nariakira, 1853
"If we take the initiative, we will dominate- if we do not, we will be dominated. Thus we should embrace the *nanban* technologies and make them our own." -Shimazu Nariakira, 1853