A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State

Robert Morton has a PhD from the University of Queensland in creative writing, an MA in linguistics from the University of York, a BA in history from the University of Sussex. He has been a professor in the Faculty of Commerce at Chuo University in Tokyo since 2000. He edited and annotated the 1861-1869 diaries of Mitford’s colleague, Ernest Satow, with Ian Ruxton (Eureka, 2013). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the Asiatic Society Japan, the oldest academic journal in Japan.

• Plate section faces page 114 Foreword by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG Preface List of Plates 1 Yokohama October – December 1866 2 Edo October 1866 – May 1867 3 The Shogun January – April 1867 4 An Adventurous Journey July – August 1867 5 The Birth of the New Japan October 1867 – March 1868 6 Kyoto February – March 1868 7 Osaka March – July 1868 8 Tokyo August 1868 – January 1870 9 After Japa 1870 – 1906 10 The Return February – March 1906 11 The Legacy 1906 – Bibliography Acknowledgements Index