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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924014072791/page/n9/mode/2up ''European Settlements in the Far East; China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, etc''] by DWS [catalogued as D Warres Smith] 1900 Archive.org. The author appears to have been the publisher of/associated with the annual publication ''Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan…'', see further above for online editions.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinamartyrsof1900fors ''The China Martyrs of 1900. 
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors''] 
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromfarea00eliouoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''Letters from the Far East''] by Sir Charles Eliot 1907 Archive.org. The author visited China and Japan in 1906.
*[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft ''Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n11 ''Houseboat Days in China''] by J. O. P. Bland illustrated by W D Straight 1909. With a [https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n311/mode/1up Map of Country near Shanghai] digital page 312. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Otway_Percy_Bland John Otway Percy Bland] (Wikipedia) was a British writer and journalist, who lived in China for most of the period 1883–1910.
*[https://archive.org/details/diplomatinjapani00sato ''A Diplomat in Japan; the inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored''] by Sir Ernest Satow 1921 Archive.org. The author was in Japan from September 1862, when he was initially appointed to the British legation as a student Interpreter at Yedo/Yokohama. Includes the 1864 Shimonoski Naval actions, including British, page [https://archive.org/stream/diplomatinjapani00sato#page/102/mode/2up 102]
*''Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo. A narrative of the settlement and the city from the signing of the treaties in 1858, to the close of the year 1879. With a glance at the progress of Japan during a period of twenty-one years'' by John R Black formerly editor of the ''Japan Herald''. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071147825 Volume I] 1880, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071147833 Volume II] 1881
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91353/page/ii/mode/2up ''The Land of the Morning: An Account of Japan and its People based on a Four Years Residence in the Country; including Travels into the Remotest Parts of the Interior''] by William Gray Dixon 1882 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22+Japan+Daily+Mail%22%29&sort=titleSorter ''The Japan Daily Mail''] , a broken range from 1888 to 1917. Archive.org
*''Things Japanese : being notes on various subjects connected with Japan for the use of travellers and others'' by Basil Hall Chamberlain. [https://archive.org/details/thingsjapanesebe00cham_0/page/n5 2nd edition revised and enlarged 1891], [https://archive.org/details/ThingsJapaneseBeingNotesOnVariousSubjectsConnecedWithJapan 3rd edition revised 1898], [https://archive.org/details/thingsjapanesebe00cham/page/n3 4th edition, revised and enlarged 1902], [https://archive.org/details/thingsjapanesebe00chamuoft/page/n3 5th edition 1905 revised] All Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/queerthingsabout00sladrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Queer Things about Japan''] by Douglas Sladen 1904, 2nd edition, first published 1903. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/morequeerthingsa00slad/page/n7/mode/2up ''More Queer Things about Japan''] by Douglas Sladen and Norma Lorimer. 1904 Archive.org.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2236 ''An outline history of Japan''] by Herbert H. Gowen 1927. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aXHUAAAAMAAJ Snippet view Google Books]
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