Kaikoku heidan
work by Hayashi Shihei
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- In Hayashi Shihei
In Hayashi’s Kaikoku heidan, 16 vol. (1787); “A Discussion of the Military Problems of a Maritime Country”), he recommended stronger military forces and a maritime defense capability. To dramatize Japan’s vulnerability from the sea, he wrote: “the waters flowing under Nihonbashi in Edo and the waters in…
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