. . . . . . . "Yokohama, a quiet fishing village when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived with his gunboat diplomacy in the mid-1800s, was quickly transformed into a bustling port for international trade. The change brought affluent foreigners to the city but also mobilized Japanese nationalist hostilities. It was in this setting that Ron and Martin Baenninger's Canadian mother and Swiss father met in 1933." . . . . "In the eye of the wind a travel memoir of prewar Japan" . "In the eye of the wind a travel memoir of prewar Japan"@en . . . . . . . "History" . "History"@en . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . . . "Electronic resource" . "In the Eye of the Wind A Travel Memoir of Prewar Japan" . . . . "In the eye of the wind : a travel memoir of prewar Japan" . "In the eye of the wind : a biographical travel memoir"@en . "Suisses Japon Biographies." . . "HISTORY General." . . . . "1926 - 1945" . . "Japon" . . "Canadiens Japon Biographies." . . "Japan" . . "Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Japon." . . "Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) Japon." . "Canadians Japan Biography." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical." . . "HISTORY Asia Japan." . . "Baenninger,Ron" . .