CHRISTOPHER ALDOUS King Alfred's College, WinchesterJAMES BABB University of NewcastleJOHN BREEN School of Oriental and African Studies, University of LondonPHILIP CHARRIER University of Regina, CanadaANDREW COBBING Kyushu University, FukuokaA. HAMISHION Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, OntarioKEI IMAI Daito Bunka University, TokyoYUKO KIKUCHI The Chelsea College of Art and Design, The London InstituteKAZUHIKO KONDO Tokyo UniversityTOSHIO KUSAMITSU Tokyo UniversityTAKAO MATSUMURA Keio University, TokyoKEVIN McCORMICK University of SussexTAMOTSU NISHIZAWA Hitosubashi University, TokyoJON PARDOE formerly Newcastle UniversityBRAIN W.F. POWELL Keble College, OxfordDAVID RYCROFT Konan University, KobeSUSAN TOWNSEND University of NottinghamTOSHIO WATANABE Chelsea College of Art and Design, The London InstituteMARK WILLIAMS University of Leeds

• List of Tables and Figures List of Plates List of Contributors and their Affiliations Foreword Preface:International History - From Diplomacy to Culture Acknowledgements Note on Japanese Names PART 1: INTRODUCTION Elites, Governments and Citizens: Some British Perceptions of Japan, 1850-2000 The Changing Image of Britain among Japanese Intellectuals PART II: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER Early Japanese Visitors to Victorian Britain; Andrew Cobbing The Rituals of Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy: Imperial Audiences in Early Meiji Japan; John Breen For the Triumph of the Cross: A Survey of the British Missionary Movement in Japan, 1869-1945; Hamish Ion Theatre Cultures in Contact: Britain and Japan in the Meiji Period; Brian Powell 'To Adapt, or Not to Adapt': Hamlet in Meiji Japan; Mark Williams & David Rycroft The British Discovery of Japanese Art; Yuko Kikuchi & Toshio Watanabe PART III: TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEMES The Modernist Inheritance of Japanese Historical Studies: Fukuzawa, Marxists and Otsuka Hisao; Kazuhiko Kondo Japanese Feminism and British Influences: The Case of Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980); Kei Imai PART IV: THE INTER-WAR YEARS New Liberalism and Welfare Economics: British Influences and Japanese Intellectuals Between the Wars - Fukuda Tokuzo and Ueda Teijiro; Tamotsu Nishizawa Yanagi Muneyoshi (1889-1961) and the British Medievalist Tradition; Toshio Kusamitsu Yanaihara Tadao and the British Empire as a Model for Colonial Reform; Susan C.Townsend 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation': The BBC and Japan, 1929-1939; Gordon Daniels & Philip Charrier Anglo-Japanese Trade Union Relations Between the Wars; Takao Matsumura British Writing on Contemporary Japan, 1924-1941: Newspapers, Books, Reviews and Propaganda; Jon Pardoe PART V: THE POSTWAR ERA (1945-2000) British Labour and Japanese Socialists: Convergence and Divergence, 1945-1952; James Babb Masking or Marking Britain's Decline? The British Council and Cultural Diplomacy in Japan, 1952-1970; Christopher Aldous Post-War Japan as a Model for British Reform; Kevin McCormick Index