Hugh Cortazzi

Gebundenes Buch

Britain and Japan

Biographical Portraits

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits
• Verlag: Global Books
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 884
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 238mm x 49mm
• Gewicht: 1208g
• ISBN-13: 9781898823445
• ISBN-10: 1898823448
• Artikelnr.: 54386045