Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits vo. IX: 9

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2015
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Containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role in a wide variety of different spheres relating to the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered. When read together they give a picture, even if inevitably a partial one, of important facets of modern history and Anglo-Japanese institutions. They shed light on a number of controversial issues, illuminate past successes and failures while overall providing a valuable point of reference for researchers and historians of the future.
Structured thematically in four Parts - Japan in Britain, Britain in Japan, Scholars and Writers, Politicians and Officials - the highlights in this volume include The Great Japan Exhibition, 1981-82, Japanese Gardens and the Japanese Garden Society in the UK, Cricket in Late Edo and Meiji Japan, Norman Macrae, pioneering journalist of The Economist, Arthur Balfour - managing the emergence of Japan as a Great Power, Michio Morishima, an economist 'made in Japan', and Margaret Thatcher - a pragmatist who radically improved Britain's image in Japan.

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Containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role in a wide variety of different spheres relating to the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered. When read together they give a picture, even if inevitably a partial one, of important facets of modern history and Anglo-Japanese institutions. They shed light on a number of controversial issues, illuminate past successes and failures while overall providing a valuable point of reference for researchers and historians of the future.

Structured thematically in four Parts - Japan in Britain, Britain in Japan, Scholars and Writers, Politicians and Officials - the highlights in this volume include The Great Japan Exhibition, 1981-82, Japanese Gardens and the Japanese Garden Society in the UK, Cricket in Late Edo and Meiji Japan, Norman Macrae, pioneering journalist of The Economist, Arthur Balfour - managing the emergence of Japan as a Great Power, Michio Morishima, an economist 'made in Japan', and Margaret Thatcher - a pragmatist who radically improved Britain's image in Japan.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 712
Edition: New
Publisher: Renaissance Books
Published: 30 Jan 2015
ISBN 10: 1898823111
ISBN 13: 9781898823117

Author Bio

Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG, was British Ambassador to Japan 1980-1984 and Chairman of The Japan Society, London, 1985-1995. He has written extensively on Japan. His many books include Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), The Japanese Achievement (1990) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He compiled and edited seven volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, most recently volume X (2016), for The Japan Society, in addition to Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views (2001), British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972 (2004) and The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo (2015). He also co-edited, with Peter Kornicki, Japanese Studies in Britain: A Survey and History (2016).