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Hugh Cortazzi studied Japanese at SOAS during the Second World War and later joined the Diplomatic Service. He served as British Ambassador to Japan from 1980 to 1984 and was subsequently a long-serving Chairman of the Japan Society amongst other roles. He has published many works on Japan, including Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports (1987), The Japanese Achievement (1990) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). More recently, he has edited volumes IV to X of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits (2002-2016), and The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo (2015). Peter Kornicki is Emeritus Professor of Japanese at the University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Tasmania and Kyoto University from 1978 to 1984. He is a fellow of the British Academy, where he is chair of the East and Southeast Asia Panel. His publications include The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century (1998) and The Female as Subject: Women and the Book in Japan (co-edited, 2010) as well as a catalogue of collections of Japanese books in libraries in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.Preface
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List of Contributors
List of Relevant Biographical Portraits
Part I: History
1 A Brief History of Japanese Studies in Britain – from the 1860s to the Twenty-first Century
Peter Kornicki
2 British Missionaries and Japanese Studies in Pre-war Japan
Hamish Ion
3 British Consular and Military Officers in Japan before 1941
J. E. Hoare
Part II: Japanese Studies at Universities
4 Cambridge University
Richard Bowring
5 Japanese Library Collections: Cambridge and Elsewhere
Koyama Noboru
6 Cardiff University
Christopher Hood
7 Durham University
Don Starr
8 University of East Anglia
Simon Kaner
9 University of Edinburgh
Ian Astley, Helen Parker and Urs Matthias Zachmann
10 University of Leeds
Mark Williams
11 London School of Economics
Ian Nish and Janet Hunter
12 Manchester University
Jonathan Bunt
13 University of Newcastle
James Babb and Joanne Smith Finley
14 Oxford University
Roger Goodman and Arthur Stockwin
15 Oxford Brookes
Joy Hendry
16 Sheffield University
Gordon Daniels
17 SOAS, University of London
Andrew Gerstle and Alan Cummings
18 The White Rose East Asia Centre:
Collaboration in Japanese Studies Between the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield
Glenn Hook
19 Japanese Studies at Other Universities in Britain
Hugh Cortazzi
Part III: Foundations and Other Organizations
20 The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS)
Caroline Rose
21 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Japanese Studies in UK Universities
Jason James
22 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation: Japanese Studies Funding and Policy, 1985–2016
Stephen McEnally
23 The Japan Foundation’s Support for Japanese Studies in Britain
Ishikawa Yui
24 The Japan Society and Japanese Studies in the UK
David Warren
25 Japanese Studies in the UK: The Role of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Polly Watson
26 The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
27 The Tanaka Fund and its Impact on Japanese Studies Library Collections in the
UK through the JFEC and the JLG Cooperative Acquisitions Scheme
Gill Goddard
Bibliography
Index