Hugh Cortazzi (ed.)

978-1-898823-11-7  w  Hardback  w   676pp  w  £60.00

E-book: 978-1-898823-

2015

Containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the Britain & Japan series is structured thematically in four Parts – Japan in Britain, Britain in Japan, Scholars and Writers, Politicians and Officials. Highlights include essays on The Great Japan Exhibition, 1981-82; Japanese Gardens and the Japanese Garden Society in the UK; Cricket in Late Edo and Meiji Japan; Norman Macrae, pioneering journalist of The Economist ; Arthur Balfour – managing the emergence of Japan as a Great Power; Michio Morishima, an economist ‘made in Japan’ and Margaret Thatcher – a pragmatist who radically improved Britain’s image in Japan.

[Published in association with The Japan Society, London.]