Title Britain & Japan : Biographical Portraits. Volume IX / compiled and edited by Hugh Cortazzi

Published Folkestone, Kent : Renaissance Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- List of Contributors -- Index of Biographical Portraitsand Memoirs inJapan Society Volumes -- Part I: Japan In Britain â€Ø Things Japanese â€Ø -- 1 The Great Japan Exhibition, 1981â€?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 KendÅ?: TheIntroduction of a Unique Sporting and Cultural Activity -- 5 Nippon Club (1881â€?2014) 6 Japan and Ye Sette of Odd Volumes and The Thirteen Club in the 1890sPart II: Britain In Japan â€Ø Trade â€Ø -- 7 British Week in Tokyo, 1969 -- 8 EXPO â€?70 at Osaka: A British View -- 9 The British Export Marketing Centre and the Promotion of British Exports to Japan 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 JapanMISSIONARIES -- 15 Christ Church, Yokohama, and its First Incumbent: Michael Buckworth Bailey, 1862â€?1872 -- 16 British Bible Societies and the Translation of the Bible into Japanese in the Nineteenth Century -- 17 Bishop Kenneth Sansbury (1905â€?1993): College Lecturer and Chaplain -- MUSIC, DRAMA AND FILM -- 18 John William Fenton (1831â€?1890) and The Japanese National Anthem Kimigayo -- 19 Britain and Japan: Exchanges in Music before the Second World War 20 Kazuo Kikuta (1908â€?1973), Japanese Impressario and Lover of Charles Dickens: A Personal Memoir21 Kawakita Nagamasa (1903â€?1981) and Kawakita Kashiko (1908â€?1993): Film Ambassadors -- 22 Sessue Hayakawa (1886â€?1973): International Film Star -- EPISODE -- 23 The Return of Japanâ€?s Lost Telescope after 400 Years -- PAINTERS -- 24 Ella Du Cane (1874â€?1943) â€? Watercolourist -- 25 Alfred Parsons, RA, PRWS (1847â€?1920) and the Japanese Watercolour Movement -- JOURNALISTS 26 R.V.C. Bodley (â€?Bodley of Arabiaâ€?) (1892â€?1970): Soldier, Adventurer, Journalist and Writer in Japan, 1933â€?193427 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 â€Ø Japanese â€Ø -- 30 Yanaihara Tadao (1893â€?1961) and His Tour of Britain, 1920â€?1921 -- 31 Ichikawa Sanki (1886â€?1970): Expert in English Philology and Literature Summary 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. When 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, illuminate past successes and failures while overall providing a valuable point of reference for researchers and historians of the future. 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 , and Margaret Thatcher a pragmatist who radically improved Britain s image in Japan Analysis anglo-japanese relations great japan exhibition japanese garden society margaret thatcher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Biography Japanese -- Great Britain -- Biography Diplomats -- Japan -- Biography British -- Japan -- Biography POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Editors, Journalists, Publishers. British Diplomatic relations Diplomats International relations Japanese SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Japan -- Biography Japan -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Biography Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan -- Biography Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Biography Subject Great Britain Japan Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Cortazzi, Hugh, compiler, editor ISBN 9781898823278 1898823278

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