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.
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.
Introduction, List of Contributors, Index of Biographical Portraits in
Japan Society Volumes, PART I: BRITAIN IN JAPAN PERSONALITIES and
ENTREPRENEURS,
1. Admiral Sir Fleetwood Pellew (17891861) and the Phaeton
Incident of 1808,
2. Thomas (Sir Stamford) Raffles (17811826) and Dr Donald
Ainslie,
3. Victoria Crosses Awarded for Valour in Japan: Duncan Boyes,
Thomas Pride, William Seeley and Robert Gray,
4. Marianne North (18301890):
Traveller, Botanist and Artist,
5. William Henry Smith (18381884): Prominent
Publicspirited Figure in Early Yokohama History,
6. Alan Owston (18531915):
Naturalist and Yachtsman,
7. Edgar Abbott (18491890): Athlete and Brewer,
8.
No 48, Yokohama,
9. Thomas Bates Blow (18531941): Antiquarian, Apiarist and
Pioneer Motorist in Japan,
10. Ernest Harold Pickering, M.P. (18811957): A
Convinced but Unconvincing Apologist for Japan,
11. Dorothy Britton (Lady
Bouchier 19222015), Gifted Composer, Author and Translator,
12. John Newman
(19251993): J?d?ka, Broadcaster and Academic,
13. Peter Martin (19312004):
Successful Author and British Council Representative,
14. Charles Frederick
Warren (18411899): Anglican Missionary in Osaka,
15. Barclay Fowell Buxton
(18601946): Evangelistic Missionary in Japan,
16. The Archdeacon and the
Canon: The Hutchinsons of Japan,
17. The Fifteenth Earl of Derby (18261893):
Foreign Secretary,
18. Earl of Kimberley (18261902) and Japan,
19. Lord
Lansdowne (18451927) and Japan,
20. Lord Lytton (18761947) and
Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1930s,
21. Early British Judges in Japan,
18651881: Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin and Sir
Richard Temple Rennie [ with an appendix on the Maria Luz case],
22. John
Carey Hall (18641926): A Career in Japan and the Japan Consular Service,
23.
Sir Colin John Davidson (18781930): Japan Specialist in the British Consular
Service,
24. John Frederick Lowder (18431902): Consul, Counsel and o-yatoi,
25. Sir Edward Crowe (18771960): Forgotten Star of the Japan Consular
Service,
26. Oswald Shiro White (18841970): 38 Years in the Japan Consular
Service,
27. Three British Consuls in Manchuria, 193132: Esler Dening,
Robert Scott and George Moss,
28. Sir Fred Warner (19181995): Ambassador to
Japan, 197276,
29. Sir Michael Wilford (19222006): Ambassador to Japan,
197580,
30. Sir John Whitehead (19322013): Ambassador to Japan, 19871992,
31. Basil Hall Chamberlains Things Japanese and the Invention of a New
Religion: A Critique of Bushido,
32. William J.S. Shand (18501909) and
Henry John Weintz (18641931): Japanese Self-taught,
33. Douglas Mills
(19232005): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University,
34. John McEwan
(19241969): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University,
35. Charles Sale
(18681943) and George Sale (18961976): Business and Politics in
Anglo-Japanese Relations,
36. Christopher W. McDonald (19312011): A Life in
Japan,
37. NSK at Peterlee: A Successful Japanese Manufacturing Investment in
the UK,
38. Sharp Corporations UK Research Investment: Sharp Laboratories of
Europe Ltd,
39. Mitsubishi Electrics Manufacturing Investments in Scotland,
40. Alps Electric (UK) Limited and the Birth of Two Trees Photonics Limited
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG, was British Ambassador to Japan 1980-1984 and Chairman of The Japan Society, London, 1985-1995. He has written extensively on Japan. His many books include Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), The Japanese Achievement (1990) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He compiled and edited seven volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, most recently volume X (2016), for The Japan Society, in addition to Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views (2001), British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972 (2004) and The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo (2015). He also co-edited, with Peter Kornicki, Japanese Studies in Britain: A Survey and History (2016). Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG, was British Ambassador to Japan 1980-1984 and Chairman of The Japan Society, London, 1985-1995. He has written extensively on Japan. His many books include Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), The Japanese Achievement (1990) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He compiled and edited seven volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, most recently volume X (2016).
