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Title Japanese Studies in Britain : a survey and history / edited by Hugh Cortazzi and Peter Kornicki
Edition Japan Society paperback edition
Published Folkstone, Kent : Renaissance Books, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 319 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Relevant Biographical Portraits -- PART I History -- 1 A Brief History of Japanese Studies in Britain -- from the 1860s to the Twenty-first Century -- 2 British Missionaries and Japanese Studies in Pre-war Japan -- 3 British Consular and Military Officers in Japan Before 1941 -- PART II Japanese Studies at Universities -- 4 Cambridge University -- 5 Japanese Library Collections: Cambridge and Elsewhere -- 6 Cardiff University -- 7 Durham University -- 8 University of East Anglia -- 9 University of Edinburgh -- 10 University of Leeds -- 11 London School of Economics -- 12 Manchester University -- 13 University of Newcastle -- 14 Oxford University -- 15 Oxford Brookes -- 16 Sheffield University -- 17 SOAS, University of London -- 18 The White Rose East Asia Centre: Collaboration in Japanese Studies Between the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield -- 19 Japanese Studies at Other Universities in Britain -- PART III Foundations and Other Organizations -- 20 The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) -- 21 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Japanese Studies in UK Universities -- 22 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation: Japanese Studies Funding and Policy, 1985-2016 -- 23 The Japan Foundation's Support for Japanese Studies in Britain -- 24 The Japan Society and Japanese Studies in the UK -- 25 Japanese Studies in the UK: The Role of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science -- 26 The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures -- 27 The Tanaka Fund and its Impact on Japanese Studies Library Collections in the UK through the JFEC and the JLG Cooperative Acquisitions Scheme -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book takes an in-depth look at the study of Japan in contemporary Britain, highlighting the many strengths but pointing out some weaknesses, while offering a valuable record of the origins and development of Japanese Studies in British universities and other institutions. It has essays by scholars from universities all over Britain
Analysis business
cardiff
edinburgh
government
newcastle
oxbridge
sisjac
soas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher
SUBJECT Japan -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain
Subject Great Britain
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Cortazzi, Hugh, editor
Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis), editor.
ISBN 9781898823599
1898823596