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, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that periodCHAPTER XIXChapter 213 wordsPublic domainSOCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH JAPANESE OFFICIALS--VISIT TO NIIGATA, SADO GOLD MINES, AND NANAO 228