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Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VIII

English · Hardback

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This is the eighth and largest volume in the series Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits published on behalf of The Japan Society, London. It contains essays from forty contributors relating to fifty-two portraits of personalities who have been influential in political, official and cultural relations between the two countries from the time of the Meiji Restoration to the present day.

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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), his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). This is the fifth volume of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits he has compiled and edited for The Japan Society, in addition to Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views (2001) and British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972.

Product details

Assisted by Hugh Cortazzi (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.01.2013
 
EAN 9789004246027
ISBN 978-90-04-24602-7
No. of pages 768
Dimensions 155 mm x 236 mm x 51 mm
Weight 1202 g
Series Britain and Japan
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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