Britain and Japan

Sir 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) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He compiled and edited seven volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, most recently volume X (2016), for The Japan Society, in addition to Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views (2001), British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972 (2004) and The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo (2015). He also co-edited, with Peter Kornicki, Japanese Studies in Britain: A Survey and History (2016). Sir 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) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He compiled and edited seven volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, most recently volume X (2016).

• Introduction, List of Contributors, Index of Biographical Portraits in Japan Society Volumes, PART I: BRITAIN IN JAPAN PERSONALITIES and ENTREPRENEURS, 1. Admiral Sir Fleetwood Pellew (1789–1861) and the Phaeton Incident of 1808, 2. Thomas (Sir Stamford) Raffles (1781–1826) and Dr Donald Ainslie, 3. Victoria Crosses Awarded for Valour in Japan: Duncan Boyes, Thomas Pride, William Seeley and Robert Gray, 4. Marianne North (1830–1890): Traveller, Botanist and Artist, 5. William Henry Smith (1838–1884): Prominent Publicspirited Figure in Early Yokohama History, 6. Alan Owston (1853–1915): Naturalist and Yachtsman, 7. Edgar Abbott (1849–1890): Athlete and Brewer, 8. No 48, Yokohama, 9. Thomas Bates Blow (1853–1941): Antiquarian, Apiarist and Pioneer Motorist in Japan, 10. Ernest Harold Pickering, M.P. (1881–1957): A Convinced but Unconvincing Apologist for Japan, 11. Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier 1922–2015), Gifted Composer, Author and Translator, 12. John Newman (1925–1993): J?d?ka, Broadcaster and Academic, 13. Peter Martin (1931–2004): Successful Author and British Council Representative, 14. Charles Frederick Warren (1841–1899): Anglican Missionary in Osaka, 15. Barclay Fowell Buxton (1860–1946): Evangelistic Missionary in Japan, 16. The Archdeacon and the Canon: The Hutchinsons of Japan, 17. The Fifteenth Earl of Derby (1826–1893): Foreign Secretary, 18. Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902) and Japan, 19. Lord Lansdowne (1845–1927) and Japan, 20. Lord Lytton (1876–1947) and Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1930s, 21. Early British Judges in Japan, 1865–1881: Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin and Sir Richard Temple Rennie [with an appendix on the Maria Luz case], 22. John Carey Hall (1864–1926): A Career in Japan and the Japan Consular Service, 23. Sir Colin John Davidson (1878–1930): Japan Specialist in the British Consular Service, 24. John Frederick Lowder (1843–1902): Consul, Counsel and o-yatoi, 25. Sir Edward Crowe (1877–1960): Forgotten Star of the Japan Consular Service, 26. Oswald ‘Shiro’ White (1884–1970): 38 Years in the Japan Consular Service, 27. Three British Consuls in Manchuria, 1931–32: Esler Dening, Robert Scott and George Moss, 28. Sir Fred Warner (1918–1995): Ambassador to Japan, 1972–76, 29. Sir Michael Wilford (1922–2006): Ambassador to Japan, 1975–80, 30. Sir John Whitehead (1932–2013): Ambassador to Japan, 1987–1992, 31. Basil Hall Chamberlain’s Things Japanese and the ‘Invention of a New Religion’: A Critique of Bushido, 32. William J.S. Shand (1850–1909) and Henry John Weintz (1864–1931): ‘Japanese Self-taught’, 33. Douglas Mills (1923–2005): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University, 34. John McEwan (1924–1969): Scholar of Japanese at Cambridge University, 35. Charles Sale (1868–1943) and George Sale (1896–1976): Business and Politics in Anglo-Japanese Relations, 36. Christopher W. McDonald (1931–2011): A Life in Japan, 37. NSK at Peterlee: A Successful Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the UK, 38. Sharp Corporation’s UK Research Investment: Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd, 39. Mitsubishi Electric’s Manufacturing Investments in Scotland, 40. Alps Electric (UK) Limited and the Birth of Two Trees Photonics Limited