Gai-Jin

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Gai-Jin

First edition cover
Author	James Clavell
Language	English
Series	Asian Saga
Genre	Historical fiction, Novel
Publisher	Delacorte Press
Publication date	June 1993
Publication place	United Kingdom, United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	1126 (paperback)
ISBN	0-385-31016-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC	27143901
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3553.L365 G34 1993
Preceded by	Tai-Pan (in chronology of Asian Saga)
Followed by	King Rat

Gai-Jin (Japanese for "foreigner") is a 1993 novel by James Clavell, chronologically the third book in his Asian Saga, although it was the last to be published. Taking place about 20 years after the events of Tai-Pan, it chronicles the adventures of Malcolm Struan, the son of Culum and Tess Struan, in Japan. The story delves deeply into the political situation in Japan and the hostility Westerners faced there, and is loosely based on the Namamugi Incident and the subsequent Anglo-Satsuma War.