books.google.com - In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_First_European_Description_of_Japan.html?id=h8YTAwAAQBAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe First European Description of Japan, 1585