![]() ![]() ![]() Swope has undertaken the first full-length scholarly study in English of this important conflict. For Japan, the war was "a dragon's head followed by a serpent's tail" an impressive beginning with no real ending. ![]() Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia but Korea's appeal to China's Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and encompassing the whole region. The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. ![]()
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