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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Cortazzi, Hugh,
• MitwirkendeR: Ackroyd, R. Peter,; Bacon, Peter,; Bandini, Rosemary,; Barrett, Mike,; Best, Antony,; Bowring, Richard,; Bradley, Clive,; Chrystie, Ian,; Cobbing, Andrew,; Cohen, Ivor,; Conte-Helm, Marie,; Cooper, Robert,; Cortazzi, Hugh,; Cronin, Joseph,; Daniels, Gordon,; De Stains, Ian,; Edelshain, Martin,; Ellis, Colin,; Galbraith, Mike,; Goddard, Gill,; Grundy, Tony,; Healey, Graham,; Hirano, Akira,; Hoare, J. E.,; Horner, Libby,; Hotta-Lister, Ayako,; Ion, Hamish,; Kamide, Mayu,; Kayama, Haruno,; Kazunori, Iwagami,; Kornicki, Peter,; Koyama, Noboru,; Macartney, Patrick,; Maclean, Nicolas,; Madden, Paul,; Morita, Norimasa,; Morton, Robert,; Nakajima, Yunichiro,; Nish, Ian,; Noguchi, Yoshio,; Norbury, Paul,; Numata, Sadaaki,; Otte, Thomas,; O’Connor, Peter,; Parekh, Dharini,; Read, Hugo,; Redfern, Mary,; Roberts, Christopher,; Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge,; Ruxton, Ian,; Screech, Timon,; Seki, Eiji,; Stortin, Paride,; Tadashi, Karato,; Tomida, Hiroko,; Warren, David,; White, Jenny,; Woodland, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (884 p.)
• Other title: 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 --; 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 --; 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
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• ISBN: 9781898823469; 9783110662931
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hugh Cortazzi.

This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton to the history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK at Peterlee and Mitsubishi Electric in Scotland, from scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain, to international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.