One man's visit to Japan's closed society changed the country's destiny

well, the guy, ranald macdonald, inspired some people in the netherlands to create an award bearing his name… next week the cultural public benefit organisation ‘friends of macdonald • the dutch connection’ will honour a monumental book, ‘with our own hands’, and an extraordinary world map, ‘authagraph’, with ranald macdonald awards… you can find the press release about the 2017 awards here (pdf)… http://www.friendsofmacdonald.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_09_28_persbericht_en.pdf