Japanese Studies in Britain

Hugh Cortazzi studied Japanese at SOAS during the Second World War and later joined the Diplomatic Service. He served as British Ambassador to Japan from 1980 to 1984 and was subsequently a long-serving Chairman of the Japan Society amongst other roles. He has published many works on Japan, including Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports (1987), The Japanese Achievement (1990) and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). More recently, he has edited volumes IV to X of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits (2002-2016), and The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo (2015). Peter Kornicki is Emeritus Professor of Japanese at the University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Tasmania and Kyoto University from 1978 to 1984. He is a fellow of the British Academy, where he is chair of the East and Southeast Asia Panel. His publications include The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century (1998) and The Female as Subject: Women and the Book in Japan (co-edited, 2010) as well as a catalogue of collections of Japanese books in libraries in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of Relevant Biographical PortraitsPart I: History1 A Brief History of Japanese Studies in Britain – from the 1860s to the Twenty-first CenturyPeter Kornicki2 British Missionaries and Japanese Studies in Pre-war JapanHamish Ion3 British Consular and Military Officers in Japan before 1941J. E. HoarePart II: Japanese Studies at Universities4 Cambridge UniversityRichard Bowring5 Japanese Library Collections: Cambridge and ElsewhereKoyama Noboru6 Cardiff UniversityChristopher Hood7 Durham UniversityDon Starr8 University of East AngliaSimon Kaner9 University of EdinburghIan Astley, Helen Parker and Urs Matthias Zachmann10 University of LeedsMark Williams11 London School of EconomicsIan Nish and Janet Hunter12 Manchester UniversityJonathan Bunt13 University of NewcastleJames Babb and Joanne Smith Finley14 Oxford UniversityRoger Goodman and Arthur Stockwin15 Oxford BrookesJoy Hendry16 Sheffield UniversityGordon Daniels17 SOAS, University of LondonAndrew Gerstle and Alan Cummings18 The White Rose East Asia Centre:Collaboration in Japanese Studies Between the Universities of Leeds and SheffieldGlenn Hook19 Japanese Studies at Other Universities in BritainHugh CortazziPart III: Foundations and Other Organizations20 The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS)Caroline Rose21 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Japanese Studies in UK UniversitiesJason James22 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation: Japanese Studies Funding and Policy, 1985–2016Stephen McEnally23 The Japan Foundation’s Support for Japanese Studies in BritainIshikawa Yui24 The Japan Society and Japanese Studies in the UKDavid Warren25 Japanese Studies in the UK: The Role of the Japan Society for the Promotion of SciencePolly Watson26 The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and CulturesNicole Coolidge Rousmaniere27 The Tanaka Fund and its Impact on Japanese Studies Library Collections in theUK through the JFEC and the JLG Cooperative Acquisitions SchemeGill GoddardBibliographyIndex