| Description |
1 online resource (liii, 831 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- List of Contributors -- Index of Biographical Portraits and Memoirs in Japan Society Volumes -- PART I: BRITAIN IN JAPAN -- PERSONALITIES AND ENTREPRENEURS -- 1. Admiral Sir Fleetwood Pellew (1789-1861) and the Phaeton Incident of 1808 -- 2. Thomas (Sir Stamford) Raffles (1781-1826) and Dr Donald Ainslie -- 3. Victoria Crosses Awarded for Valour in Japan: Duncan Boyes, Thomas Pride, William Seeley and Robert Gray -- 4. Marianne North (1830-1890): Traveller, Botanist and Artist -- 5. William Henry Smith (1838-1884): Prominent Public-spirited Figure in Early Yokohama History -- 6. Alan Owston (1853-1915): Naturalist and Yachtsman -- 7. Edgar Abbott (1849-1890): Athlete and Brewer -- 8. No 48, Yokohama -- 9. Thomas Bates Blow (1853-1941): Antiquarian, Apiarist and Pioneer Motorist in Japan -- WRITERS AND BROADCASTERS -- 10. Ernest Harold Pickering, M.P. (1881-1957): A Convinced but Unconvincing Apologist for Japan -- 11. Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier 1922-2015), Gifted Composer, Author and Translator -- 12. John Newman (1935-1993): Jūdōka, Broadcaster and Academic -- 13. Peter Martin (1931-2004): Successful Author and British Council Representative -- MISSIONARIES -- 14. Charles Frederick Warren (1841-1899): Anglican Missionary in Osaka -- 15. Barclay Fowell Buxton (1860-1946): Evangelistic Missionary in Japan -- 16. The Archdeacon and the Canon: The Hutchinsons of Japan -- POLITICIANS -- 17. The Fifteenth Earl of Derby (1826-1893): Foreign Secretary -- 18. Earl of Kimberley (1826-1902) and Japan -- 19. Lord Lansdowne (1845-1927) and Japan -- 20. Lord Lytton (1876-1947) and Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1930s -- OFFICIALS AND DIPLOMATS -- 21. Early British Judges in Japan, 1865-1881: Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin and Sir Richard Temple Rennie -- 22. John Carey Hall (1864-1926): A Career in Japan and the Japan Consular Service -- 23. Sir Colin John Davidson (1878-1930): Japan Specialist in the British Consular Service -- 24. John Frederick Lowder (1843-1902): Consul, Counsel and o-yatoi -- 25. Sir Edward Crowe (1877-1960): Forgotten Star of the Japan Consular Service -- 26. Oswald 'Shiro' White (1884-1970): 38 Years in the Japan Consular Service -- 27. Three British Consuls in Manchuria, 1931-32: Esler Dening, Robert Scott and George Moss -- 28. Sir Fred Warner (1918-1995): Ambassador to Japan, 1972-76 -- 29. Sir Michael Wilford (1922-2006): Ambassador to Japan, 1975-80 -- 30. Sir John Whitehead (1932-2013): Ambassador to Japan, 1987-1992 -- SCHOLARS -- 31. Basil Hall Chamberlain's Things Japanese and the 'Invention of a New Religion': A Critique of Bushido -- 32. William J.S. Shand (1850-1909) and Henry John Weintz (1864-1931): 'Japanese Self-taught' -- 33. Douglas Mills (1923-2005): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University -- 34. John McEwan (1924-1969): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University -- BUSINESS, TRADE AND INVESTMENT -- 35. Charles Sale (1868-1943) and George Sale (1896-1976): Business and Politics in Anglo-Japanese Relations -- 36. Christopher W. McDonald (1931-2011): A Life in Japan -- 37. NSK at Peterlee: A Successful Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the UK -- 38. Sharp Corporation's UK Research Investment: Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd -- 39. Mitsubishi Electric's Manufacturing Investments in Scotland -- 40. Alps Electric (UK) Limited and the Birth of Two Trees Photonics Limited -- 41. Chugai Pharmaceutical in the United Kingdom -- 42. Selling British Electronics to Japan -- Part I: Selling to Japanese Manufacturers Investing in Britain -- Part II: Selling to Japanese Companies in Japan -- BUSINESS, TRADE AND INVESTMENT -- 43. Wool in Japan: A Very British Story -- 44. The British Chamber of Commerce (Japan), 1948-2015 -- 45. English Lawyers and Japan from the 1960s to the Present Day -- 46. The British Pavilion at Aichi Expo 2005 -- CULTURE -- 47. Victorian Novelists in Japan: Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Brontë in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries -- 48. Minton for the Meiji Emperor -- 49. Britain and the JET Programme: Five Individuals -- PART II: JAPAN IN BRITAIN -- DIPLOMATS -- 50. Fujiyama Naraichi (1915-1994): A Young Diplomat in Wartime -- 51. Kazuo Chiba (1925-2004): An Outstanding Japanese Diplomat -- 52. Young Japanese Diplomats Sent to Study at British Universities -- BUSINESS, TRADE AND BANKING -- 53. Saba Shoichi (1919-2012): Japanese Industrialist and Friend of Britain -- 54. Shijuro Ogata (1927-2014): Internationalist Japanese Banker -- 55. The Japanese Chamber of Commerce in the UK, 1959-2015 -- SCHOLARS -- 56. Yasui Tetsu (1870-1945): Promoter of Women's Higher Education -- 57. Tanaka Hozumi (1876-1944): Enlightened Educationalist at Waseda -- 58. Hagihara Nobutoshi (1926-2001): Internationalist -- 59. Nakaya Ukichiro (1900-1962): Snow Scientist -- 60. Takakusu Junjirō (1866-1945): Buddhist Idealist, Scholar and Educator -- CULTURE & COLLABORATION -- 61. Itō Michio (1892-1961): Dancer and Producer -- 62. Bonsai in Britain -- 63. The Royal Academy of Arts and Japan: 140 Years of Exhibitions, Education and Debate -- 64. Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style: Japonisme -- 65. Shimaoka Tatsuzō (1919-2007): Master Japanese Potter -- 66. Katō Shōzō (1863-1930) and Tomita Kumasaku (1872-1953): Japanese Art Dealers in London -- 67. Netsuke and Inrō collectors in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 68. Lisa, Lady Sainsbury (1912-2014): Bringing Japanese Art to East Anglia -- 69. UK-Japan 21st Century group -- Select Bibliography of Works in English on Anglo-Japanese Relations -- Select Bibliography of Works in Japanese on Anglo-Japanese Relations -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume comprises some fifty essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically: portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton; history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK and Mitsubishi Electric; scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain; international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro |
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anglo-japanese trade |
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bonsai |
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missionaries |
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politicians |
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victorian novelists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Japanese -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Diplomats -- Japan -- Biography
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British -- Japan -- Biography
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British -- Biography
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Japanese -- Biography
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
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British
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Diplomats
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International relations
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Japanese
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan
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Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cortazzi, Hugh, compiler, editor
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| ISBN |
9781898823469 |
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1898823464 |
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