Japanologists, including: Francis Xavier, Lafcadio Hearn, Philipp Franz Von Siebold, Ruth Benedict, Luís Fróis, Edwin O. Reischauer, Carl Peter ... Mason Satow, Arthur Waley, Engelbert Kaempfer

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