Introduction by Hugh Cortazzi
List of Contributors
Index of Biographical Portraits in Japan Society Volumes
PART I: BRITAIN IN JAPAN
PERSONALITIES and ENTREPRENEURS
1. Admiral Sir Fleetwood Pellew (1789–1861) and the Phaeton Incident of 1808
TIMON SCREECH
2. Thomas (Sir Stamford) Raffles (1781–1826) and Dr Donald Ainslie
TIMON SCREECH
3. Victoria Crosses Awarded for Valour in Japan: Duncan Boyes, Thomas Pride, William Seeley and Robert Gray
IAN RUXTON
4. Marianne North (1830–1890): Traveller, Botanist and Artist
TADASHI KARATO and HUGH CORTAZZI
5. William Henry Smith (1838–1884): Prominent Publicspirited Figure in Early Yokohama History
MIKE GALBRAITH
6. Alan Owston (1853–1915): Naturalist and Yachtsman
MIKE GALBRAITH
7. Edgar Abbott (1849–1890): Athlete and Brewer
MIKE GALBRAITH
8. No 48, Yokohama
MIKE GALBRAITH
9. Thomas Bates Blow (1853–1941): Antiquarian, Apiarist and Pioneer Motorist in Japan
IAN CHRYSTIE
WRITERS and BROADCASTERS
10. Ernest Harold Pickering, M.P. (1881–1957): A Convinced but Unconvincing Apologist for Japan
PETER O’CONNOR
11. Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier 1922–2015), Gifted Composer, Author and Translator
HUGH CORTAZZI and PAUL NORBURY
12. John Newman (1925–1993): J?d?ka, Broadcaster and Academic
IAN RUXTON
13. Peter Martin (1931–2004): Successful Author and British Council Representative
MIKE BARRETT
MISSIONARIES
14. Charles Frederick Warren (1841–1899): Anglican Missionary in Osaka
HAMISH ION
15. Barclay Fowell Buxton (1860–1946): Evangelistic Missionary in Japan
HAMISH ION
16. The Archdeacon and the Canon: The Hutchinsons of Japan
HAMISH ION
POLITICIANS
17. The Fifteenth Earl of Derby (1826–1893): Foreign Secretary
ROBERT MORTON and ANDREW COBBING
18. Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902) and Japan
THOMAS OTTE
19. Lord Lansdowne (1845–1927) and Japan
THOMAS OTTE
20. Lord Lytton (1876–1947) and Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1930s
ANTONY BEST
OFFICIALS and DIPLOMATS
21. Early British Judges in Japan, 1865–1881: Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin and Sir Richard Temple Rennie [with an appendix on the Maria Luz case]
CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS
22. John Carey Hall (1864–1926): A Career in Japan and the Japan Consular Service
J.E. HOARE
23. Sir Colin John Davidson (1878–1930): Japan Specialist in the British Consular Service
AYAKO HOTTA-LISTER
24. John Frederick Lowder (1843–1902): Consul, Counsel and o-yatoi
J.E. HOARE
25. Sir Edward Crowe (1877–1960): Forgotten Star of the Japan Consular Service
J.E. HOARE
26. Oswald ‘Shiro’ White (1884–1970): 38 Years in the Japan Consular Service
HUGO READ
27. Three British Consuls in Manchuria, 1931–32: Esler Dening, Robert Scott and George Moss
IAN NISH
28. Sir Fred Warner (1918–1995): Ambassador to Japan, 1972–76
ROBERT COOPER
29. Sir Michael Wilford (1922–2006): Ambassador to Japan, 1975–80
DAVID WARREN
30. Sir John Whitehead (1932–2013): Ambassador to Japan, 1987–1992
HUGH CORTAZZI
SCHOLARS
31. Basil Hall Chamberlain’s Things Japanese and the ‘Invention of a New Religion’: A Critique of Bushido
JOSEPH CRONIN
32. William J.S. Shand (1850–1909) and Henry John Weintz (1864–1931): ‘Japanese Self-taught’
NOBORU KOYAMA
33. Douglas Mills (1923–2005): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University
RICHARD BOWRING
34. John McEwan (1924–1969): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University
PETER KORNICKI
BUSINESS, TRADE and INVESTMENT
35. Charles Sale (1868–1943) and George Sale (1896–1976): Business and Politics in Anglo-Japanese Relations
ANTONY BEST
36. Christopher W. McDonald (1931–2011): A Life in Japan
YUNICHIRO NAKAJIMA
37. NSK at Peterlee: A Successful Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the UK 4
NSK STAFF MEMBERS
38. Sharp Corporation’s UK Research Investment: Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd
CLIVE BRADLEY
39. Mitsubishi Electric’s Manufacturing Investments in Scotland
YOSHIO NOGUCHI
40. Alps Electric (UK) Limited and the Birth of Two Trees Photonics Limited
PETER WOODLAND
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