Writings: Japanese Translations of Expedition Accounts 日本語で見る | Read in Japanese 
- Japanese translation of Perry’s Expedition Report: Peruri Teitoku Nihon enseiki
This Japanese translation of the first volume in Perry’s Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan (originally published in the United States in1856), appeared in 1912. The language of this early twentieth century Japanese text may be difficult for modern Japanese readers because written Japanese has changed so much. The translation was made from a copy of the Narrative brought back from the U.S. by Sakurai Shōzō, a navy engineer and Professor of naval architecture at the technical college of the Imperial University (now called the University of Tokyo). An advertisement for the volume (found on page 361 in this version), promoted the translation as “a rare and unusual book, of which only 1 or 2 copies can be found in Japan.” - Japanese translation of memoir by Wilhelm Heine: Nihon kouki
This is a link to the Japanese translation of the Heine memoir at the Doshisha University Academic Repository.