The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. Volumes 66 and 67, first published in 1883, contain the diary and selected correspondence of Richard Cocks (c.1565-1624), who was head of a British trading post in Japan from 1613 to 1622.

This Hakluyt Society volume (1883) contains the second part of a British merchant's diary describing Japan in the seventeenth century.