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I'm giving Gai-jin 4-1/2 stars in my Reading Log. I really enjoyed it, as I have all the other Clavell books in his Asian Saga series. Gai-jin is wholly set in "the Japans" in the year 1862. There was a lot going on at that time in Japan with regards to the status of the Emperor and the Shoganate, as well as with other important Japanese daimyos--Lords--and their forces; some official samurai, some shishi (rebels against the existing order of the controlling Council of Elders). The Noble House o
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