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This volume comprises some fifty essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically: portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton; history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK and Mitsubishi Electric; scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain; in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cortazzi, Hugh (Compilador, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Folkestone, Kent : Renaissance Books, 2016.
Temas:
Diplomats > Great Britain > Biography.
Japanese > Great Britain > Biography.
Diplomats > Japan > Biography.
British > Japan > Biography.
British > Biography.
Japanese > Biography.
Diplomates > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Japonais > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Diplomates > Japon > Biographies.
Britanniques > Japon > Biographies.
Britanniques > Biographies.
Japonais > Biographies.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
British.
Diplomats.
International relations.
Japanese.
Great Britain > Relations > Japan.
Japan > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Japan.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • BUSINESS, TRADE AND INVESTMENT
  • 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
  • SCHOLARS
  • 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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