Hugh Cortazzi

Britain and Japan

Biographical Portraits

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

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

Autorenporträt

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).