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Japanese Studies in Britain
  • A Survey and History
  • Edited by Hugh Cortazzi, Peter Kornicki
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    13 May 2022
    Print publication:
    01 October 2016
  • This book takes an in-depth look at the study of Japan in contemporary Britain, highlighting the many strengths but also pointing out some weaknesses, while at the same time offering a valuable historical record of the origins and development of Japanese Studies in British universities and other institutions.
    br>The book comprises essays written by scholars from universities all over Britain, as well as contributions from various supporting foundations and organizations. It opens with an historical overview by Peter Kornicki, followed by chapters on the important role of missionaries in advancing Japanese language studies in pre-war Japan by Hamish Ion and the contribution of the British consular and military officers before 1941 by Jim Hoare.

    Japanese Studies in Britain gives a snapshot of the present state of Japanese studies in Britain. It also provides an important new benchmark and point of reference regarding the present options for studying Japan at British universities. It offers in addition a wider perspective on the role, relevance and future direction of Japanese studies for academia, business and government, students planning their future careers and more generally the world of education, as well as readers interested in the developing relationship between Britain and Japan.

The Thames and I
  • A Memoir of Two Years at Oxford
  • Crown Prince Naruhito
  • Translated by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    13 May 2022
    Print publication:
    28 February 2019
  • Prior to becoming Crown Prince of Japan in 1989, following the death of his grandfather Emperor Showa, Prince Naruhito studied at Merton College, Oxford, from June 1983 to October 1985. His research topic was the River Thames as a commercial highway in the eighteenth century. This marked the first time that anyone in direct succession to the throne had ever studied outside Japan. In 1992, he published a record of his time at Oxford under the title Thames no tomo ni.

    The memoir, which includes a colour plate section incorporating photographs taken by the Prince, explores his daily life, studies and recreational experiences, including discovering beer and being banned from entering a disco because he was wearing jeans. The Thames and I is a remarkable record, not least because of its candour, but equally because it reveals the Crown Prince as an individual, including his personal charm and sense of humour. It will be of special interest to those wishing to know more about the future emperor of Japan.

Britain & Japan Biographical Portraits Vol X
  • Edited by Hugh Cortazzi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    01 June 2016
  • This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton to the history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK at Peterlee and Mitsubishi Electric in Scotland, and from scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain, to international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.

Carmen Blacker
  • Scholar of Japanese Religion, Myth and Folklore: Writings and Reflections
  • Edited by Hugh Cortazzi
  • With James McMullen, Mary-Grace Browning
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    04 May 2022
    Print publication:
    01 January 2017
  • Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore - her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. Importantly, a third of the volume comprises significant extracts from the author's diaries covering a period of more than forty years, together with a plate section drawn from her extensive photographic archive, thus providing a rare opportunity to gain a personal insight into the author's life and work. The volume includes a wide selection of writings from distinguished scholars such as Donald Keene and her former pupil Peter Kornicki in celebration of her work and legacy, together with various essays and papers by Carmen Blacker herself that have hitherto not been widely available. In addition to her scholarship, Carmen Blacker was also highly regarded for her work in promoting Japanese Studies at Cambridge and played a vital role in helping to re-establish The Japan Society, London, post-war.

British Foreign Secretaries and Japan 1850-1990
  • Aspects of the Evolution of British Foreign Policy
  • Edited by Antony Best, Hugh Cortazzi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    30 April 2022
    Print publication:
    01 June 2018
  • This book reviews the role of British Foreign Secretaries in the formulation of British policy towards Japan from the re-opening of Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It also takes a critical look at the history of British relations with Japan over these years. Beginning with Lord John Russell (Foreign Secretary 1859-1865) and concluding with Geoffrey Howe (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1983-1989), the volume also examines the critical roles of two British Prime Ministers in the latter part of the twentieth century, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, who ensured that Britain recognized both the reality and the opportunities for Britain resulting from the Japanese economic and industrial phenomenon. Heath’s main emphasis was on opening the Japanese market to British exports. Thatcher’s was on Japanese investment.

    This volume is a valuable addition to the Japan Society’s series devoted to aspects of Anglo-Japanese relations which includes ten volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits as well as British Envoys in Japan.

Britain & Japan Biographical Portraits Vol IX
  • Edited by Hugh Cortazzi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    30 April 2022
    Print publication:
    01 October 2015
  • Published in association with the Japan Society and containing fifty-seven essays, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role in a wide variety of different spheres relating to the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered. Read together they give a picture, even if inevitably a partial one, of important facets of modern history and Anglo-Japanese institutions. They shed light on a number of controversial issues as well as illuminate past successes and failures. Structured thematically in four parts - Japan in Britain, Britain in Japan, Scholars and Writers, Politicians and Officials - the highlights in this volume include: 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.

Georges Bigot and Japan 1882-1889
  • Satirist, Illustrator and Artist Extraordinaire
  • Edited by Christian Polak
  • With Hugh Cortazzi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    30 April 2022
    Print publication:
    01 June 2018
  • Incorporating over 250 illustrations, this is the first comprehensive study in English of French artist and caricaturist George Ferdinand Bigot (1860-1927) who, during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, was renowned in Japan but barely known in his own country. Even today, examples of his cartoons appear in Japanese school textbooks. Inspired by what he saw of Japanese culture and way of life at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1878, Bigot managed to find his way to Japan in 1882 and immediately set about developing his career as an artist working in pen and ink, watercolours and oils. He also quickly exploited his talent as a highly skilled sketch artist and cartoonist. His output was prodigious and included regular commissions from The Graphic and various Japanese as well as French journals. He left Japan in 1899, never to return. The volume includes a full introduction of the life, work and artistry of Bigot by Christian Polak, together with an essay by Hugh Cortazzi on Charles Wirgman, publisher of Japan Punch. Wirgman was Bigot’s ‘predecessor’ and friend (he launched his own satirical magazine in 1887, the year Japan Punch closed).

    Georges Bigot and Japan also makes a valuable contribution to Meiji studies and the history of both Franco- and Anglo-Japanese relations, as well as the role of art in modern international relations.

British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018
  • 150 Years of Association, Engagement and Celebration
  • Peter Kornicki, Antony Best, Hugh Cortazzi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    30 April 2022
    Print publication:
    30 April 2019
  • This new scholarly study examines the history of the relations between the British and Japanese monarchies over the past 150 years. Complemented by a significant plate section which includes a number of rarely seen images, as well as a chronology of royal/imperial visits and extensive bibliography, British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018 will become a benchmark reference on the subject. The volume is divided into three sections. Part I, by Peter Kornicki, examines the 'royals and imperials' history during the Meiji era; Part II, by Antony Best, examines the first half of the twentieth century; and Part III, by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, focuses on the post-war history up to the present day. Published in association with the Japan Society, its appearance marks the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the enthronement of Crown Prince Naruhito in May 2019. It is also a memorial volume to the late Sir Hugh Cortazzi who died in August 2018, shortly after completing his own contribution to the volume.

  • Renewing and Developing Royal Relations in a Changed World: 1945—2018

  • Peter Kornicki, Antony Best, Hugh Cortazzi
  • Book:
    British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018
    Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    30 April 2022
    Print publication:
    30 April 2019, pp 143-220

  • Summary

    FOLLOWING THE OUTBREAK of hostilities in December 1941, the Japanese invasion of Malaya was followed by the sinking of the two Bntish capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, and then by the surrender of Hong Kong on Chnstmas Day. As the war in the Far East unfolded, British resentment against Japan intensified. The humiliation of the Bntish surrender of Singapore in February 1942 could not easily be forgotten, but as confirmation was received of Japanese maltreatment of pnsoners of war and civilian internees, feelings against the Japanese emperor in whose name Japanese soldiers were fighting became angry and there were calls for him to be tned and punished once victory had been attained. No one in Bntain gave any real thought in 1945 to reviving the relationship between the Bntish royal and the Japanese impenal families and courts. The pnonty was survival and recovery. There could be no going back to the pre-war world. The balance of power had radically changed as a result ot the war. Monarchical systems were being superseded, and if monarchies were to survive in the post-war world they would have to change and adapt.

    THE BRITISH MONARCHY

    The Bntish monarchy had come out of the war with its populanty and prestige enhanced by the identification of King George VI and his queen with the war effort and the suffenngs of Bntish people in the blitz and in battles which had only been won through suffenng and sacnfice. But the old hierarchies and stuffy court system of the past could not be revived in their old form in an age of austerity and under the Labour government that came to power in August 1945. The Bntish loved pageantry, but there was no money left for ostentatious show. Changes were inevitable, but they took time to work their way through the system. Many changes did not come about until the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 on the death of King George VI. Pnnce Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in particular recognized that if the monarchy did not adapt to the post-war world its existence would be questioned. Royalty could not continue a gilded life cocooned from the realities facing working people. It had to show a human face.

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