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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; international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro

""26 R.V.C. Bodley (â€?Bodley of Arabiaâ€?) (1892â€?1970): Soldier, Adventurer, Journalist and Writer in Japan, 1933â€?1934""""27 Norman Macrae (1921â€?2010): Pioneering Journalist of The Economist on Japanese Affairs""; ""JAPANESE WOMEN PIONEERS""; ""28 Yamamoto Yao (1875â€?1955) and Japanese Nursing""; ""29 ÅŒe Sumi (1875â€?1948) and Domestic Science in Japan""; ""Part III: Scholars And Writers • Japanese •""; ""30 Yanaihara Tadao (1893â€?1961) and His Tour of Britain, 1920â€?1921""; ""31 Ichikawa Sanki (1886â€?1970): Expert in English Philology and Literature""

John Pilcher's appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the widely acclaimed Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain following the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment that had earlier marked the relationship between the two countries

The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published to over one hundred.The portraits cover diplomats (from Mori Arinori to Sir Francis Lindley), businessmen (from William Keswick to Lasenby Liberty), engineers and teachers (from W. E. Ayrton to Henry Spence

This sixth volume in the Britain and Japan series contains a total of thirty-three entries, thoughtfully and painstakingly compiled and edited by Hugh Cortazzi. The volume is divided up thematically and includes an Index of Biographical Portraits published to date by the Japan Society

Sir Hugh Cortazzi, one of Britain's most prominent post-war Ambassadors to Japan who was in Tokyo to receive Margaret Thatcher on her historic 'handbagging' visit in 1982, was never a so-called 'traditional' diplomat.Having gained entry to the Foreign Service in 1949 his diplomatic life was hardly 'conventional'; it was most certainly, at times, controversial -- from London to Bonn, to Washington (at the time of Watergate) but principally Japan where he undertook three tours of duty, the last as Ambassador, 1980-84. After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, he became a high-profile Chairman of the Japan Society in 1985, a post he held for ten years. This memoir is a real tour de force, providing the reader with an informed, critical perspective on world affairs in general, but with a particular emphasis on Japan