Japan Experiences - Fifty Years, One Hundred Views
Japan Experiences - Fifty Years, One Hundred Views

Author: Hugh Cortazzi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 1134278977

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This unique volume comprising writings and memoirs covering the half century since the end of the Pacific War, offers the reader a fascinating and remarkable collection of personal experiences of Japan across a wide spectrum.

Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII
Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII

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Publisher: Global Oriental

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 9004218033

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This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.

Japanese Journeys
Japanese Journeys

Author: Geoffrey Bownas

Publisher: Brill

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Geoffrey Bownas, widely known for his writings, translations, broadcasts and commentaries relating to Japan, and an eminent Japanese Studies scholar, has at last completed a memoir. It is a historical record of some significance tracking Japan's post-war history from abject poverty to unimaginable prosperity as the world's second largest economy, and the 'lost' post-bubble years.

British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972
British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972

Author: Hugh Cortazzi

Publisher: Embassies of Asia

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 374

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Comprehensive coverage of the diplomatic history in Japan of H.M. Representatives and the events that marked their period of office.

Injury Time
Injury Time

Author: Dennis Joseph Enright

Publisher: Random House (UK)

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language.