Japan Experiences - Fifty Years, One Hundred Views: Post-War Japan Through British Eyes

by Cortazzi; Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781903350041
• ISBN10: 1903350042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-09
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This unique volume comprising writings and memoirs covering the half century since the end of the Pacific War, offers the reader a fascinating and remarkable collection of personal experiences of Japan across a wide spectrum.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction: Anglo-Japanese Relations Since the War: The Framework	xvii
Alphabetical List of Contributors	xxii
Alphabetical List of Authors/Lecturers Quoted	xxiv
Acknowledgements	xxvi
THE CURTAIN RISES
Aftermath of War: Occupation and Poverty	1	(52)
Peter Dean
Lewis Bush
John Figgess
Bill Beasley
Peter Parker
Peter Bates
Lord Bramall
Ian Nish
Lew Radbourne
Paul Bates
Christopher Wood
John Morris
Edmund Blunden
Honor Tracy
Nostalgia for Pre-war Japan	53	(10)
General Piggott
Frank Ashton-Gwatkin
Return of a Native	63	(10)
Dorothy Britton Bouchier
CULTURE
Cultural Relations Resumed	73	(17)
Edmund Blunden
George Fraser
Dennis Enright
Reg Close
Ronald Bottrall
Freddie Tomlin
Francis King
Some Interesting Visitors	90	(13)
Benjamin Britten
Stephen Spender
Sacheverell Sitwell
Arthur Koestler
Kenneth Clark
Anthony Powell
Laurens van der Post
David Hockney
Hugh Casson
Four English Writers in japan	103	(20)
Anthony Thwaite
Harry Guest
John Haylock
Peter Robinson
The British Council Follows Through	123	(13)
Peter Martin
Mike Barrett
Travails of the Teachers	136	(18)
Roger Buckley
Sue Hudson
Adrian McGreevey
Susanna Pfeiffer
Sarah Johnson
Philip Everest
British Scholars in Japan	154	(48)
Ron Dore
Eric Ceadel
Bill Beasley
Carmen Blacker
Geoffrey Bownas
Peter Swan
Ian Nish
Dick Storry
ken Gardner
Peter Kornicki
Joy Hendry
Some Encounters with Japanese Writers	202	(15)
Honor Tracy
Junichiro Tanizaki
Yoshida Kenichi
Carmen Blacker
Jiro Osaragi
Honor Tracy and others
Kenichi Yoshida
Lees Mayall
Yukio Mishima
George Bull -- Graham Greene -- Shusaku Endo
Hugh Cortazzi -- Ryotaro Shiba
SOME EVENTS
The British Part in the Tokyo Olympic Games 1964	217	(4)
Dick Ellingworth with a comment from Tony Rundall
Britain at Expo' 70 in Osaka	221	(9)
Lesley Connors
Lydia Gomersall
Janet Hunter
Anne Kaneko
Peter Martin
The Death of the Showa Emperor, 7 January 1989	230	(18)
Carolyn Whitehead
David Powers
The Start of a New Era
Carolyn Whitehead	239	(9)
David Powers
The Japan Festival in the United Kingdom, 1991	248	(6)
Martin Campbell White
SOME OBSERVERS
The Penetrating Eyes of British Journalists	254	(23)
Hessell Tiltman
Fred Emery
William Horsley
Ian de Strains
Henry Scott Stokes
Bill Emmott
How Some Politicians Saw Post-war Japan	277	(17)
Julian Ridsdale
Patrick Jenkin
Kenneth Baker
Denis Healey
David Young
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
British Businessmen in Japan: Some Memories of the Shell Oil Company	294	(23)
Paul Bates
Michael Wingate
Neville Fakes
British Businessmen in Japan: Developing Trade Relations	317	(19)
Lew Radbourne
Duncan Fraser
British Businessmen in Japan: Some Service Sectors	336	(21)
Martyn Naylor
David Wilkinson
Ann Wilkinson
Dick Large
Graham McCallum
Manufacturing Investment	357	(8)
Peter Parker
Mike Perry
British Export Efforts: Personal Reflections of a British Trade Official	365	(19)
Ben Thorne
Banking and Financial Services: A British Commercial Banker in Japan 1980--85	384	(9)
Peter Hand
Experiences of some British Merchant Bankers	393	(27)
Edmund de Rothschild
Hugh Trenchard
Christopher Purvis
John Naish
Investment Management and Broking: The Experiences of Two Old Hands	420	(13)
Eric Elstob
Dugald Barr
Banking and Financial Services: The View from the Bank of England and the Treasury	433	(16)
Chris Elston
Geoffrey Littler
OFFICIALS
Army and Navy Officers in Japan	449	(24)
John Figgess
Peter Dean
Jimmy Abraham
Mike Forrest
Fail Forrest
Two Scientists in Japan	473	(10)
Bill Williamson
Clive Bradley
Bridging the Professions	483	(5)
Phillida Purvis
From Diplomacy to Commerce and Back	488	(11)
Merrick Baker-Bates
Early Days in the Kansai	499	(5)
Sydney Giffard
The Reactions of Two Young Language Students in the 1950s	504	(9)
Dick Ellingworth
Brian Hitch
The Beginning of a Long Association	513	(13)
John Whitehead
Cypher Officer, Language Student, Vice-Consul	526	(21)
Eddie Ripley
Language Students, Commercial Officer, Information Officer	547	(10)
Alan Pinnell
Two British Heads of Chancery who were not Japanese Specialists	557	(9)
Lees Mayall
Nicholas Barrington
An Eccentric Diplomat	566	(6)
Vere Redman on what he learnt in and from Japan
The Ambassadors	572	(34)
Lees Mayall on Dan Lascelles and Oscar Morland
Oscar Morland, Tony Rundall
Simone Warner (on Japan during Fred Warner's time as Ambassador)
Michael Wilford
John Whitehead
John Boyd
David Wright
Postscript: Canterbury. An Address by John Whitehead	606	(4)
Addendum: Tokyo Medical and Surgical Clinic by Gren Wedderburn	610	(7)
Appendix: The History of Petroleum in Japan by Neville Fakes	617	(8)
Index	625