etorop

Updated: May 28, 2025

Incensed by such treatment, the Russians, in 1806, invaded Saghalien, carried away several Japanese soldiers, and partially raided Etorop and other places. They threatened further violence in the following year unless international trade was sanctioned. The Bakufu had now a serious problem to solve, and their ideas of its solution were almost comical.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era