Consul in Japan, 1903-1941

Hugo Read is the great-grandson of Oswald White who spent 38 years in the Japan Consular Service (1903-1941). White's 'Japan memoir' was entitled All Ambition Spent, mostly written pre-1939 but completed towards the end of the war. Hugo Read is also the author of a portrait of Oswald White published in Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. X. He works in the telecoms industry, and is a wine consultant and member of the Association of Wine Educators. He writes on food, drink, travel.

• Figures and Plate section face page 108AcknowledgementsForeword by Jim HoareIntroduction by Hugo ReadList of Figures and PlatesPreface to ‘All Ambition Spent’Chapter 1 The Japanese ViewChapter 2 Student Interpreter in Tokyo, 1903–1905Chapter 3 Tokyo in 1904 and 1905Chapter 4 Assistant at Yokohama, 1905–1908Chapter 5 Stray Notes on LanguageChapter 6 Assistant in Corea, 1908–1910Chapter 7 Corea in 1909 and 1910Chapter 8 Vice-Consul at Yokohama, 1911–1913Chapter 9 Vice-Consul at Osaka, 1913–1919Chapter 10 Consul at Nagasaki, 1920–1925Chapter 11 Consul at Dairen, 1925–1927Chapter 12 Consul-General at Seoul, 1928–1931Chapter 13 Consul-General at Osaka, 1931–1937Chapter 14 Consul-General at Mukden, 1938–1939Chapter 15 Consul-General at Tientsin, 1939–1941Chapter 16 Anglo-Japanese RelationsIndex