Prue Holstein spent her career working in the private, government and non-profit sectors engaged in the Asian region. She spent some 14 years in Japan, in Tokyo and in Osaka/Kobe working in the private sector and then in senior diplomatic roles with the Australian Federal and the Victorian State Governments. She also served in the United States. Holstein has an MBA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Japanese Studies from Monash University and speaks Japanese and German.

• Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Editorial Notes Prologue Introduction & Background Part I: Family Origins Chapter 1 Hamburg: A Trading Port Connected to China and Japan Part II: Unequal Treaties & Extraterritoriality Chapter 2 Nagasaki: Civil Unrest and Consular Jurisdiction Chapter 3 Kobe: Building a Waterfront Empire Part III: Revised Treaties Chapter 4 Transitioning to Japanese Jurisdiction Chapter 5 Operating in the Hatoba Chapter 6 Managing a Japanese Workforce Chapter 7 Securing Land Tenure Chapter 8 The Case of the Dynamite Explosion in the Port of Kobe Part IV: World War One Chapter 9 World War One: The British Declare Economic War on German Merchant Chapter 10 World War One: The Swineherd Kidnapping Case Conclusions Bibliography Index

Prue Holstein spent her career working in the private, government and non-profit sectors engaged in the Asian region. She spent some 14 years in Japan, in Tokyo and in Osaka/Kobe working in the private sector and then in senior diplomatic roles with the Australian Federal and the Victorian State Governments. She also served in the United States. Holstein has an MBA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Japanese Studies from Monash University and speaks Japanese and German.

• Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Editorial Notes Prologue Introduction & Background Part I: Family Origins Chapter 1 Hamburg: A Trading Port Connected to China and Japan Part II: Unequal Treaties & Extraterritoriality Chapter 2 Nagasaki: Civil Unrest and Consular Jurisdiction Chapter 3 Kobe: Building a Waterfront Empire Part III: Revised Treaties Chapter 4 Transitioning to Japanese Jurisdiction Chapter 5 Operating in the Hatoba Chapter 6 Managing a Japanese Workforce Chapter 7 Securing Land Tenure Chapter 8 The Case of the Dynamite Explosion in the Port of Kobe Part IV: World War One Chapter 9 World War One: The British Declare Economic War on German Merchant Chapter 10 World War One: The Swineherd Kidnapping Case Conclusions Bibliography Index

Prue Holstein spent her career working in the private, government and non-profit sectors engaged in the Asian region. She spent some 14 years in Japan, in Tokyo and in Osaka/Kobe working in the private sector and then in senior diplomatic roles with the Australian Federal and the Victorian State Governments. She also served in the United States. Holstein has an MBA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Japanese Studies from Monash University and speaks Japanese and German.

• Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Editorial Notes Prologue Introduction & Background Part I: Family Origins Chapter 1 Hamburg: A Trading Port Connected to China and Japan Part II: Unequal Treaties & Extraterritoriality Chapter 2 Nagasaki: Civil Unrest and Consular Jurisdiction Chapter 3 Kobe: Building a Waterfront Empire Part III: Revised Treaties Chapter 4 Transitioning to Japanese Jurisdiction Chapter 5 Operating in the Hatoba Chapter 6 Managing a Japanese Workforce Chapter 7 Securing Land Tenure Chapter 8 The Case of the Dynamite Explosion in the Port of Kobe Part IV: World War One Chapter 9 World War One: The British Declare Economic War on German Merchant Chapter 10 World War One: The Swineherd Kidnapping Case Conclusions Bibliography Index