Daily entertainment news covering Adrian Lester en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/16/branagh_adapts_and_directs_shakespeare_s Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:00:00 EST Entertainment News 51798@http://www.starpulse.com/news In the latter part of the 19th century, Japan opened up for trade with the West. Merchant adventurers arrived from all over the world, many of them English. Some traded in silk and rice and lived in enclaves around the "treaty ports." They brought their families and their followers and created private mini-empires where they tried to embrace this extraordinary culture, its beauties and its dangers

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