TY - BOOK ID - 77920568 TI - Japanese envoys in Britain, 1862-1964 : a century of diplomatic exchange AU - Nish, Ian Hill. AU - Japan Society (London, England) PY - 2007 SN - 1281805793 9786611805791 9004213457 9789004213456 9781905246328 1905246323 9781281805799 6611805796 PB - Folkestone : Global Oriental, DB - UniCat KW - Diplomats KW - Statesmen KW - History. KW - Great Britain KW - Japan KW - Foreign relations KW - J4813.31 KW - J4810.70 KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77920568 AB - Commissioned by the Japan Society as the companion volume to British Envoys in Japan, 1959-1972 (2004), this collection of essays on a century of official Japanese representation in the United Kingdom completes the history of bilateral diplomatic relations up to the mid-1960's, concluding with Ambassador Ohno Katsumi’s highly successful six-year assignment in 1964. In all, twelve authors, half of whom are Japanese , contribute to the work. In addition to the nineteen biographies, there are essays on the history of the Japanese Embassy buildings in London, an overview of Japanese envoys in Britain between 1862 and 1872 by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, as well as aspects of embassy life which illuminate some of the factors impacting on the life-style of residents in London in former times, including an entertaining personal memoir by Ayako Ishizaka of ‘A Diplomat’s Daughter in the 1930's’. By way of appendix, the volume concludes with a short history of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) up to the present day. ER -