Tomoe Kumojima is a lecturer at the CORE of STEM and the International Exchange Centre at Nara Women's University, Japan. Her current research project explores the concept of aesthetic diplomacy and its political efficacy through textual and visual analysis of travelogues, fictional writing, and artwork about the Asia-Pacific region by women in the British Empire, the United States, and the Empire of Japan in the early twentieth century.

Such work could enhance cross-cultural understanding, just as she says the work of these travelers did for their own audiences

• Introduction 1: Hospitable Friendship: Victorian Women Travellers and the Praxis of Ethical Relationality 2: A Traveller Who Laughs: Isabella Bird and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan 3: A Literary Diplomat: Mary Crawford Fraser and A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan 4: A Scientist in Love: Marie Stopes and A Journal from Japan

Tomoe Kumojima is a lecturer at the CORE of STEM and the International Exchange Centre at Nara Women's University, Japan. Her current research project explores the concept of aesthetic diplomacy and its political efficacy through textual and visual analysis of travelogues, fictional writing, and artwork about the Asia-Pacific region by women in the British Empire, the United States, and the Empire of Japan in the early twentieth century.

Such work could enhance cross-cultural understanding, just as she says the work of these travelers did for their own audiences

• Introduction 1: Hospitable Friendship: Victorian Women Travellers and the Praxis of Ethical Relationality 2: A Traveller Who Laughs: Isabella Bird and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan 3: A Literary Diplomat: Mary Crawford Fraser and A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan 4: A Scientist in Love: Marie Stopes and A Journal from Japan

Tomoe Kumojima is a lecturer at the CORE of STEM and the International Exchange Centre at Nara Women's University, Japan. Her current research project explores the concept of aesthetic diplomacy and its political efficacy through textual and visual analysis of travelogues, fictional writing, and artwork about the Asia-Pacific region by women in the British Empire, the United States, and the Empire of Japan in the early twentieth century.

Such work could enhance cross-cultural understanding, just as she says the work of these travelers did for their own audiences

• Introduction 1: Hospitable Friendship: Victorian Women Travellers and the Praxis of Ethical Relationality 2: A Traveller Who Laughs: Isabella Bird and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan 3: A Literary Diplomat: Mary Crawford Fraser and A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan 4: A Scientist in Love: Marie Stopes and A Journal from Japan