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The fourth volume in a series, this work is devoted to the lives of
key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant
contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The
appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published
to over 100. The portraits cover diplomats (from Mori Arinori to
Sir Francis Lindley), businessmen (from William Keswick to Lasenby
Liberty), engineers and teachers (from W.E. Ayrton to Henry Spencer
Palmer), scholars and writers (from Sir Edwin Arnold to Ivan
Morris), as well as journalists, judo masters and the aviator Lord
Semphill. In all, there are a total of 34 contributions in this
book.
This volume forms part of the major new series, published by Curzon
Press under the Japan Library imprint, featuring the collected
writings of many of the most outstanding western scholars who have
been actively writing about Japan and connected subjects over the
last half century. Developed in close collaboration with Hugh
Cortazzi, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section
of their writings, thematically structured around essays, including
published and unpublished conference and symposium papers,
contributions to refereed journals, chapters from multi-author
volumes, translations and book reviews, as well as newspaper and
more broadly based general-interest articles and commentaries as
available. A full introductory section, written by the author,
reviewing his association and historical ties with Japan as well as
specialist interests, prefaces each volume. Thus, for the first
time in scholarly publishing, this series makes available a
comprehensive collection of the author's lifetime output (other
than single-author volumes) that might otherwise be lost or
dispersed. Special areas: biographies; history; cultural exchange;
arts; and business and foreign
The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars
and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to
commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of
key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant
contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The
appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published
to over one hundred. The portraits cover diplomats (from Mori
Arinori to Sir Francis Lindley), businessmen (from William Keswick
to Lasenby Liberty), engineers and teachers (from W. E. Ayrton to
Henry Spencer Palmer), scholars and writers (from Sir Edwin Arnold
to Ivan Morris), as well as journalists, judo masters and the
aviator Lord Semphill. In all, there are a total of 34
contributions.
This unique volume comprising writings and memoirs covering the
half century since the end of the Pacific War, offers the reader a
fascinating and remarkable collection of personal experiences of
Japan across a wide spectrum.
This unique volume comprising writings and memoirs covering the
half century since the end of the Pacific War, offers the reader a
fascinating and remarkable collection of personal experiences of
Japan across a wide spectrum.
Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts,
business and foreign affairs.
After a brief description of Japan's geography, people and
language, and a summary of Japanese history and culture, this book
gives an account of the Japanese constitution, the Diet and the
organization of government (central and local). Separate chapters
follow on law and order, foreign affairs and defence, industry and
commerce, agriculture and infrastructure, employment, health and
welfare, and finally, education and culture. Seven appendices
provide additional facts and figures. Sir Hugh Cortazzi is the
author of "The Japanese Achievement".
This new scholarly study examines the history of the relations
between the British and Japanese monarchies over the past 150
years. Complemented by a significant plate section which includes a
number of rarely seen images, as well as a chronology of
royal/imperial visits and extensive bibliography, British Royal and
Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018, will become a benchmark
reference on the subject. The volume is divided into three
sections. Part I, by Peter Kornicki, examines the 'royals and
imperials' history during the Meiji era; Part II, by Antony Best,
examines the first half of the twentieth century; Part III, by Sir
Hugh Cortazzi, focuses on the post-war history up to the present
day. Published in association with the Japan Society, its
appearance marks the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the
enthronement of Crown Prince Naruhito in May 2019. It is also a
memorial volume to the late Sir Hugh Cortazzi who died in August
2018, shortly after completing his own contribution to the volume.
This is a fascinating account of the fifteen years spent in Japan
by William Willis, a British medical pioneer. Quite apart from the
importance of his reports on medical practice and the spread of
Western medicine, Dr Willis, who worked with the British Legation
until 1868, was also a notable eye-witness to many historic
occasions. Dr Willis's letters to his family in Ireland are quoted
extensively. First published in 1985, this title is part of the
Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English
literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote
so fully about it. Kipling's newspaper dispatches from Japan were
described by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as 'the
most graphic even penned by a globetrotter'. These vivid
pen-pictures, together with Kipling's other writings about Japan,
are now collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb, carefully
edited with an introduction and Notes. First published in 1988,
this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
An anthology of impressions, 'snapshots' and anecdotes, this
collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a
foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo,
Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty ports and
their vicinity. This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing
light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan
itself. First published in 1987, this title is part of the
Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
Offers comprehensive coverage of the diplomatic history in Japan of
H M Representatives and the events that marked their period of
office.
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