The Merchant's Tale Ministry & Leadership Hannah Fry and Sir Jonathan

Hannah Fry and Sir Jonathan Van-Tam

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The Merchant's Tale Ministry & Leadership Hannah Fry and Sir JonathanIn April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chemon left his old life behind. Chemon, a well off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "opening" to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration's reforms. The Merchant's Tale looks