Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• HUGH CORTAZZI

Titel

Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. IX

Ort / Verlag

Renaissance Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the Britain & Japan series is structured thematically in four Parts – Japan in Britain, Britain in Japan, Scholars and Writers, Politicians and Officials. Highlights include essays on 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.