Britain and Japan : : Biographical Portraits / / Hugh Cortazzi.

• VerfasserIn: Cortazzi, Hugh,
• MitwirkendeR: Albery, Nobuko,; Best, Antony,; Buckley, Roger,; Budden, Paul,; Chakmakjian, Pauline,; Cobb, David,; Cobbing, Andrew,; Cortazzi, Hugh,; Cortazzi, Tr. Hugh,; Curtin, Sean,; Daniels, Gordon,; Dimond, Paul,; Emmott, Bill,; Galbraith, Mike,; Hardman, Graham,; Hirata, Yoko,; Huberman, Toni,; Hunter, Janet,; Imamura, Akira,; Ion, Hamish,; Jack, Stuart,; Kaneko, Anne,; Kato, Setsuo,; Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki,; Koyama, Noboru,; Maclean, Nicolas,; Morita, Norimasa,; Morton, Robert,; Nish, Ian,; Oba, Sadao,; Otte, Thomas G.,; Pilcher, John,; Roberts, Christopher,; Robinson, Eleanor,; Seki, Eiji,; Shaigiya-Abdelsamad, Yahya,; Snell, Bill,; Snowden, Paul,; Talks, Audrey Sansbury,; Thorne, Ben,; Tokumoto, Eiichiro,; Tomida, Hiroko,; Townsend, Susan,; Various,,; Watanabe, Toshio,; Woolridge, Adrian,; Yoshifumi, Saito,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (676 p.)

Published in association with the Japan Society and 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. 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 as well as illuminate past successes and failures. 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’; Margaret Thatcher – a pragmatist who radically improved Britain’s image in Japan.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- List of Contributors -- Index of Biographical Portraits in Japan Society Volumes -- PART I: JAPAN IN BRITAIN -- THINGS JAPANESE -- 1. The Great Japan Exhibition, 1981–1982 -- 2. Haiku in the British Isles: A Tale of Acceptance and Non-acceptance -- 3. Japanese Gardens and the Japanese Garden Society in the UK -- 4. Three Ages of British Kendo: The Introduction of a Unique Sporting and Cultural Activity -- 5. The Nippon Club, 1881–2014 -- 6. Japan and Ye Sette of Odd Volumes and London’s Thirteen Club in the 1890s -- PART II: BRITAIN IN JAPAN -- TRADE -- 7. British Week in Tokyo, 1969 -- 8. EXPO ’70 at Osaka: A British View -- 9. The British Export Marketing Centre and the Promotion of British Exports from 1972 -- 10. Scotch Whisky in Japan -- BRITISH ACTIVITIES -- 11. Mountaineering in Japan: British Pioneers and the Pre-war Japanese Alpine Club -- 12. Cricket in Late Edo and Meiji Japan -- 13. Introduction of Football from Britain into Nineteenth-century Japan: Rugby Football and Soccer -- 14. Freemasonry in Japan -- MISSIONARIES -- 15. Christ Church, Yokohama, and its First Incumbent: Michael Buckworth Bailey, 1862–1872 -- 16. British Bible Societies and the Translation of the Bible into Japanese in the Nineteenth Century -- 17. Bishop Kenneth Sansbury (1905–1993): College Lecturer and Chaplain -- MUSIC, DRAMA AND FILM -- 18. John William Fenton (1831–1890) and the Japanese National Anthem Kimigayo -- 19. Britain and Japan: Musical Exchanges before World War II -- 20. Kazuo Kikuta (1908-1973), Japanese Impresario and Lover of Charles Dickens: A Personal Memoir -- 21. Kawakita Nagamasa (1903–1981) and Kawakita Kashiko (1908-1993): Film Ambassadors -- 22. Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973): International Film Star -- EPISODE -- 23. The Return of Japan’s Lost Telescope after 400 Years -- PAINTERS -- 24. Ella Du Cane (1874-1943): Watercolourist -- 25. Alfred Parsons, RA, PRWS (1847-1920) and the Japanese Watercolour Movement -- JOURNALISTS -- 26. R.V.C. Bodley (‘Bodley of Arabia’) (1892-1970): Soldier, Adventurer, Journalist and Writer in Japan, 1933–1934 -- 27. Norman Macrae (1921–2010): Pioneering Journalist of The Economist on Japanese Affairs -- JAPANESE WOMEN PIONEERS -- 28. Yamamoto Yao (1875-1955) and Japanese Nursing -- 29. Ōe Sumi (1875-1948) and Domestic Science in Japan -- PART III: SCHOLARS AND WRITERS -- JAPANESE -- 30. Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961) and His Tour of Britain, 1920-1921 -- 31. Ichikawa Sanki (1886-1970): Expert in English Philology and Literature -- 32. Michio Morishima (1923–2004): An Economist Made in Japan -- 33. Honma Hisao (1886–1981): Expert on Oscar Wilde -- 34. Shimamura Hōgetsu (1871-1918): Pioneer of Shingeki (Western-style Theatre) in Japan -- 35. Mutō Chōzō (1881–1942), and A Short History of Anglo-Japanese Relations -- 36. Yanada Senji (1906–1972): Teacher of Japanese at SOAS -- 37. Sakurai Jōji, (1858-1939): Leading Chemist and No¯ Drama Specialist -- BRITISH -- 38. Edward Divers (1837–1912) and Robert William Atkinson (1850–1929): Influential Teachers of Chemistry in Meiji Japan -- 39. Edward Vivian Gatenby, CBE (1892–1955): Distinguished Teacher of English as a Foreign Language -- 40. Wolf Mendl (1926-1999): Leading Scholar in the Field of International Relations -- 41. John Sargent: Respected Geographer of Japan -- 42. Grace James (1882-1965) and Mrs T.H. (Kate) James (1845-1928): Writers of Children’s Stories -- PART IV: POLITICIANS AND OFFICIALS -- JAPANESE -- 43. Katō Hiroharu (1870–1939) and Japan’s Last Foreign-built Cruiser -- 44. Fukuda Takeo (1905-1995): Japanese Prime Minister who Spent Three Years in London -- 45. Shirasu Jirō (1902–1985): A Complicated and Enigmatic Personality -- BRITISH OFFICERS -- 46. Sir Henry Keppel (1809–1904): ‘Probably the Most Universally Popular Naval Commander Ever Sent by England to the East’ -- 47. Major C.A.L. Yate VC (1872-1914): A Gallant British Officer and Admirer of Japan -- BRITISH JUDGES AND A DIPLOMAT -- 48. Sir Nicholas John Hannen (1842-1900): Judge of the British Court for Japan -- 49. Robert Anderson Mowat (1843–1925): Judge of the British Court for Japan, 1891–1897 -- 50. Sir Francis Bertie (1844–1919): Key Figure in Framing the Anglo-Japanese Alliance -- BRITISH POLITICAL FIGURES -- 51. Lord Granville (1815–1891): A Pragmatist at the Foreign Office -- 52. Arthur Balfour (1848–1930): A Skilled Politician Managing the Emergence of Japan as a Great Power -- 53. Sir John Simon (1873–1959) and ‘This Manchurian Briar Patch’ -- 54. Lord Halifax (1881–1959): A Reassessment of British Far Eastern Policy, 1938–1941 -- 55. Sir Anthony Eden (1897–1977): Managing the Challenge of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1936–1955 -- 56. Ernest Bevin (1881-1951) and British Policies towards Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 -- 57. Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013): Pragmatist Who Radically Improved Britain’s Image in Japan and Successfully Promoted Japanese Manufacturing Investment in Britain -- Index