Japan Library

Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics

Admiral Kato Kanji and the 'Washington System'

By Ian Gow

Series: Japan Library

This is a study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (Navy) relations and on the professional and political career of one leading naval figure,...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

Japan's Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports

By Yuki Allyson Honjo

Series: Japan Library

This is the first in-depth study of the early trial-and-error experiences of contracting between Japanese and western merchants trading in the Japanese Treaty Ports in the eighteen year period immediately following the opening of the ports in 1859. Fundamental to the equation were the inevitable...

Published August 27th 2003 by Routledge

Times Past in Korea

An Illustrated Collection of Encounters, Customs and Daily Life Recorded by Foreign Visitors

By Martin Uden

Series: Japan Library

In earlier times, for the Chinese, Korea was 'the country of courteous people from the east', and for westerners 'the land of the morning calm' or 'hermit kingdom'. In this fascinating collection of writings on times past in Korea the author helps to lift the veil on this once closed country,...

Published June 11th 2003 by Routledge

Britain and Japan

Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV

Edited by Hugh Cortazzi

Series: Japan Library

The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of...

Published August 28th 2002 by Routledge

Mitford's Japan

Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906

Edited by Hugh Cortazzi

Series: Japan Library

As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills,...

Published August 28th 2002 by Routledge

Japan's Modern Theatre

A Century of Change and Continuity

By Brian Powell

Series: Japan Library

This book endeavours to unravel the complicated skeins of Japanese theatre in the modern period and offers an appreciation of the richness of choice of presentational and representational theatre forms.Since the end of world War II there has been continuing but different conflict between the major...

Published June 26th 2002 by Routledge

The Satsuma Students in Britain

Japan's Early Search for the essence of the West'

By Andrew Cobbing

Series: Japan Library

In the spring of 1865, when Japan was in the grip of a major civil war, eighteen samurai and an interpreter risked their lives to embark secretly on a voyage to the unknown lands of the barbarian west. Their destination was Britain - at the hub of a vast empire. These were the Satsuma students,...

Published April 16th 2000 by Routledge

Britain and Japan

Biographical Portraits, Vol. III

By J E Hoare, J. E. Hoare

Series: Japan Library

The success of the first two volumes in this series has prompted this third volume of 25 further protraits of key personalities, including Natsume Soseki, Thomas Blackiston, Ivan Morris, Admiral Saito and Ozaki Yukio....

Published October 4th 1999 by Routledge

The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle

Building the Foundations of Japanese Science and Technology 1945-52

By Bowen C. Dees

Series: Japan Library

There is virtually nothing - until the arrival of this study - addressing the significance of the enormous contributions in science and technology towards the realization of Japan's 'economic miracle' during the occupation period. Describes the Scientific and Technical Division of McArthur's GHQ....

Published August 18th 1997 by Routledge

Britain and Japan Vol II

Biographical Portraits

By Ian Nish

Series: Japan Library

This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title, incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan, Alexander Shand, an important figure in the development of Japanese banking, Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter...

Published February 16th 1997 by Routledge