Britain and Japan Vol II: Biographical Portraits: 2 (Britain & Japan)

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This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title, incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan, Alexander Shand, an important figure in the development of Japanese banking, Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter of Japanese culture, Rev. Dr. John Batchelor whose work with the Ainu people of northern Japan is legendary and, more recently, Shigeru Yoshida, Japan's first post-war prime minister and Christmas Humphreys, founder of the Buddhist Society.

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The series of which this is Volume II began in 1994 with the first volume edited by the distinguished professor emeritus of the London School of Economics (LSE) and Japan specialist Professor Ian Nish who also edited this one. There have now been four more volumes as follows: Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. III edited by J.E. Hoare; Volume IV, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. V and Volume VI all edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi. And a seventh volume is being planned as I write this.

This volume comprises 24 chapters all by leading British and Japanese academics, or people with the relevant knowledge. They are all well-written and interesting. Topics range from the first British Minister in Japan Sir Rutherford Alcock (Ch.1) to the Impact in Britain of Japan's Post-war Novelists (Ch. 24). It is a great volume in a remarkable series.

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