978-1-898823-44-5 [Symbol]   Hardback [Symbol] 832pp [Symbol] £65.00

June 2016  

E-book:  978-1-898823-46-9 

Importantly, the volume provides a special focus on Angl o-Japanese trade and investment  –   a major theme  in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations, which is worthy of considerably more exploration. General subject-matter includes Bonsai in Britain, Victorian Novelists in Japan and Britain and the JET Programme.    

The volume is divided into the following sections: Personalities and Entrepreneurs, Writers and Broadcasters, Missionaries, Politicians, Officials and Diplomats, Scholars, Business, Trade and Investment and Culture.  

Also included is an extensive eighteen-page Select Bibliography of Works in English relating to Anglo-Japanese relations, together with a list of works in Japanese.