Britain & Japan : biographical portraits /

Britain & Japan : biographical portraits /

This Seventh Volume tracking the history of Anglo-Japanese relations through leading personalities and significant themes of the day offers a classic menu totalling 47 entries divided into ten sections - opening with three studies of Meiji Era leaders, (all of whom spent time in London) and concludi...

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Other Authors / Creators:Nish, Ian Hill.
Hoare, James.
Cortazzi, Hugh.
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:Japan Society (London, England)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Folkestone : Japan Library, ©1994-
Subjects:
Diplomats > Great Britain > Biography.
Japanese > Great Britain > Biography.
Diplomats > Japan > Biography.
British > Japan > Biography.
British
Diplomatic relations
Diplomats
International relations
Japanese
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Japan > Biography.
Japan > Foreign relations > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain > Relations > Japan > Biography.
Japan > Relations > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain
Japan
Foreign relations
Biographies
Online Access:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
Table of Contents:
  • Sir Harry Parkes, 1828-1885 / Hugh Cortazzi
  • British journalists in Meiji Japan / James Hoare
  • British missionaries in Meiji Japan / Helen Ballhatchet
  • 'Working at their profession': Japanese engineers in Britain before 1914 / Olive Checkland
  • Maejima Hisoka, 1853-1919: founder of Japan's postal system / Janet Hunter
  • Isabella Bird, 1831-1904 / Pat Barr
  • Minikata Kumagusu, 1867-1941: a genius now recognized / Carmen Blacker
  • Armstrong's, vickers and Japan / Marie Conte-Helm
  • The silent admiral: Tōgō Heihachirō (1848-1934) and Britain / Kiyoshi Ikeda
  • Japan' Adoption of the gold standard and the London money market, 1881-1903: Matsukata, Nakai and Takhashi / Norio Tamaki
  • Sir Claude and Lady Ethel MacDonald / Ian Nish
  • The Japan-British exhibition of 1910: the Japanese organizers / Ayako Hotta-Lister.
  • (Cont.) 'In one day I have lived many lives': Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, novelist and diplomat, (1889-1976) / Ian Nish
  • Yoshio Markino, 1869-1956 / Carmen Blacker
  • The Mingei movement and Bernard Leach / Hugh Cortazzi
  • Tsuneo Matsudaira, diplomat and courtier (1877-1949) / Ian Nish
  • Gordon Munro: ventures in Japanese archaeology and anthropology / Jan Wilkinson
  • Sir Robert Craigie as Ambassador to Japan, 1937-1941 / Antony Best
  • R.H. Blyth, 1898-1964 / Adrian Pinnington
  • Otome and Frank Daniels / Ronald Dore
  • Sir Alvary Gascoigne in Japan, 1946-1951 / Peter Lowe
  • Split images: occupied Japan through the eyes of British journalists and authors / Roger Buckley.

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