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Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972 Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo

Cortazzi, Hugh
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk

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9781898823148
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2015-11-01
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Renaissance Books
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1000 gr
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254 mm
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160 mm
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40 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
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434

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Cortazzi, Hugh

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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).

Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972 Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo

Cortazzi, Hugh
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
Cortazzi, Hugh
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
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John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the widely acclaimed Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain following the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment that had earlier marked the relationship between the two countries. He brought to his role a particular understanding of Japanese civilization and a critical analysis of Japanese attitudes and way of life.  Before the war he had had the good fortune to spend time as a language student in Kyoto. There he came to appreciate Japanese culture at its best but as a junior consular official he also came to see other less attractive aspects of Japan. In this volume Sir Hugh Cortazzi who was to follow in John Pilcher’s footsteps, has compiled the defining reports to Whitehall from Pilcher’s time and as such they offer a valuable record of Japan’s progress at this important point in her post-war history, as well as providing unique insights into the activities, hopes and expectations of the British government in her dealings with Japan. The collection (including essays and writings from his private papers) which has hitherto remained largely unknown or inaccessible to most researchers, provides a platform for John Pilcher as a writer and distinguished scholar-diplomat.
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John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain after the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment that had earlier marked the relationship between the two countries.
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Plate section faces page

Foreword – Ian Nish

Publisher’s Preface – Paul Norbury

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Hugh Cortazzi

PART 1: 1967

1. Sir Francis Rundall’s Valedictory Despatch

2. Japanese Economic Aid

3. The State Funeral for Mr Shigeru Yoshida

4. Japan: Annual Review for 1967

PART 2: 1968

5. Visit of the Secretary of State to Japan, 7–10 January

6. The Visit of USS Enterprise to Japan

7. Impressions of Contemporary Japan

8. The 58th (Regular) Diet Session

9. The So?ka Gakkai and the Ko?meito?

10. Japanese Economic Success: A British Opportunity

11. The Japanese Left

12. The Japanese Mood in 1968

13. Mr Sato’s New Cabinet

14. Japan: Annual Review, 1968

PART 3: 1969

15. Revolting Students: Japanese Style

16. Japan’s Science and Technology

17. Labour and Incomes in the Japanese Economy

18. British Week, Tokyo

19. The Merry Wives of Ginza: Women’s Status in Japan 1

20. The Quality of Life in Japan

21. Japan: Annual Review, 1969

22. The Japanese Self-Defence Forces

PART 4: 1970

23. Osaka Expo ’70: A First Impression

24. The Japanese Mood in 1970

25. Japan’s Economy in the 1970s: The Miracle Excels Itself

26. Japan’s Changing Society and the New Generation

27. Japanese Exports: How Much of a Threat?

28. Japanese Protectionism: Signs of a Thaw?

29. ‘The Rest are Monkeys’: The Japanese Abroad

30. Japan in the 1970s: The Trade Mark and the Sword

31. Japanese Militarism

32. Mishima’s Suicide

33. Japan: Annual Review for 1970 – ‘Economic Man’ Comes of Age

PART 5: 1971 – THE SHOWA EMPEROR

34. The Emperor of Japan: The Man and His Life

35. The Emperor of Japan: Human or Divine?

36. The Emperor and Empress of Japan

37. The Visit of the Emperor and Empress of Japan to Europe as Seen from Tokyo

38. Mr Sato’s New Cabinet

39. Relations Between Japan and the United States

40. Japan in 1971: The Rude Awakening

PART 6: SIR JOHN PILCHER’S LAST MONTHS IN JAPAN

41. Japan in the 1970s: ‘Guns and Butter’

42. Japanese Export Successes: Cheap, Sweated Labour?

43. Basic Japan and the Shifting Mood 1967–71

44. The Japanese: ‘Frail Flowers of Opportunism’?

PART 7: 1972 – A NEW ERA FOR THE BRITISH MISSION

45. The Lord Privy Seal Brings Concorde to Japan

46. The Plebian Mr Tanaka Replaces Mr Sato

47. Japanese Investments Overseas

48. Mr Tanaka in Charge

49. The Japanese on the Road to Peking

50. The First Visit to Japan by a British Prime Minister

APPENDICES

I ‘Sir John Pilcher: Ambassador to Japan, 1967–1972’. Portrait by Hugh Cortazzi

II Letter from Kyoto, January 1936

III ‘A Perspective on Religion in Japan’ (Lecture at the Nissan Institute, May 1984)

IV ‘Is Economic Success Destroying Japanese Traditions?’ (Occasional Paper/Speech, 1975)

V Book Review, 1977: Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan

VI ‘An Introduction to Japanese Gardens’

(Occasional Paper/Speech. Early1980s?)

Index

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John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the widely acclaimed Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain following the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment that had earlier marked the relationship between the two countries. He brought to his role a particular understanding of Japanese civilization and a critical analysis of Japanese attitudes and way of life.  Before the war he had had the good fortune to spend time as a language student in Kyoto. There he came to appreciate Japanese culture at its best but as a junior consular official he also came to see other less attractive aspects of Japan. In this volume Sir Hugh Cortazzi who was to follow in John Pilcher’s footsteps, has compiled the defining reports to Whitehall from Pilcher’s time and as such they offer a valuable record of Japan’s progress at this important point in her post-war history, as well as providing unique insights into the activities, hopes and expectations of the British government in her dealings with Japan. The collection (including essays and writings from his private papers) which has hitherto remained largely unknown or inaccessible to most researchers, provides a platform for John Pilcher as a writer and distinguished scholar-diplomat.
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John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain after the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment that had earlier marked the relationship between the two countries.
Les mer

Plate section faces page

Foreword – Ian Nish

Publisher’s Preface – Paul Norbury

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Hugh Cortazzi

PART 1: 1967

1. Sir Francis Rundall’s Valedictory Despatch

2. Japanese Economic Aid

3. The State Funeral for Mr Shigeru Yoshida

4. Japan: Annual Review for 1967

PART 2: 1968

5. Visit of the Secretary of State to Japan, 7–10 January

6. The Visit of USS Enterprise to Japan

7. Impressions of Contemporary Japan

8. The 58th (Regular) Diet Session

9. The So?ka Gakkai and the Ko?meito?

10. Japanese Economic Success: A British Opportunity

11. The Japanese Left

12. The Japanese Mood in 1968

13. Mr Sato’s New Cabinet

14. Japan: Annual Review, 1968

PART 3: 1969

15. Revolting Students: Japanese Style

16. Japan’s Science and Technology

17. Labour and Incomes in the Japanese Economy

18. British Week, Tokyo

19. The Merry Wives of Ginza: Women’s Status in Japan 1

20. The Quality of Life in Japan

21. Japan: Annual Review, 1969

22. The Japanese Self-Defence Forces

PART 4: 1970

23. Osaka Expo ’70: A First Impression

24. The Japanese Mood in 1970

25. Japan’s Economy in the 1970s: The Miracle Excels Itself

26. Japan’s Changing Society and the New Generation

27. Japanese Exports: How Much of a Threat?

28. Japanese Protectionism: Signs of a Thaw?

29. ‘The Rest are Monkeys’: The Japanese Abroad

30. Japan in the 1970s: The Trade Mark and the Sword

31. Japanese Militarism

32. Mishima’s Suicide

33. Japan: Annual Review for 1970 – ‘Economic Man’ Comes of Age

PART 5: 1971 – THE SHOWA EMPEROR

34. The Emperor of Japan: The Man and His Life

35. The Emperor of Japan: Human or Divine?

36. The Emperor and Empress of Japan

37. The Visit of the Emperor and Empress of Japan to Europe as Seen from Tokyo

38. Mr Sato’s New Cabinet

39. Relations Between Japan and the United States

40. Japan in 1971: The Rude Awakening

PART 6: SIR JOHN PILCHER’S LAST MONTHS IN JAPAN

41. Japan in the 1970s: ‘Guns and Butter’

42. Japanese Export Successes: Cheap, Sweated Labour?

43. Basic Japan and the Shifting Mood 1967–71

44. The Japanese: ‘Frail Flowers of Opportunism’?

PART 7: 1972 – A NEW ERA FOR THE BRITISH MISSION

45. The Lord Privy Seal Brings Concorde to Japan

46. The Plebian Mr Tanaka Replaces Mr Sato

47. Japanese Investments Overseas

48. Mr Tanaka in Charge

49. The Japanese on the Road to Peking

50. The First Visit to Japan by a British Prime Minister

APPENDICES

I ‘Sir John Pilcher: Ambassador to Japan, 1967–1972’. Portrait by Hugh Cortazzi

II Letter from Kyoto, January 1936

III ‘A Perspective on Religion in Japan’ (Lecture at the Nissan Institute, May 1984)

IV ‘Is Economic Success Destroying Japanese Traditions?’ (Occasional Paper/Speech, 1975)

V Book Review, 1977: Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan

VI ‘An Introduction to Japanese Gardens’

(Occasional Paper/Speech. Early1980s?)

Index

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781898823148
Publisert
2015-11-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Renaissance Books
Vekt
1000 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
434

Redaktør
Cortazzi, Hugh

Om bidragsyterne

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).

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