Chapter 1 Introduction: The Meaning of the East Asian Maritime History—From a Japanese Perspective

Chapter 2 The Study of Maritime Asian History in Japanese Schools

Chapter 3 Japanese Daimyōs as Sea Lords in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Their Involvement in the Japan–Ming Trade

Chapter 4 The Origin of the Namban Trade: The Sea of Private Traders

Chapter 6 Edo Period Maps of the Old World: An Analysis on Their Textual Information of Ports and Trade

Chapter 7 Another Altan Khan in Maritime Asia?: Controversies on the Revival of Sino–Japanese Tributary Trade During the Japanese Invasion of Korea

Chapter 8 Bloody Headcount: A Dispute Over Reward and the Mutiny of the Ming Southern Soldiers in the First Stage of the Korea War (1592–1595)

Chapter 9 The Diffusion of Japanese Firearms in the Ming Dynasty at the End of the Sixteenth Century: From the Japanese Invasion of Korea to Yang Yinglong’s Revolt in Bozhou

Chapter 10 Repatriation of Korean Captives from Japan After Toyotomi’s Invasion