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  • Japanese Studies in Britain

    A Survey and History

    Edited by Hugh Cortazzi, Peter Kornicki ...
    This book takes an in-depth look at the study of Japan in contemporary Britain, highlighting the many strengths but also pointing out some weaknesses, while at the same time offering a valuable historical record of the origins and development of Japanese Studies in British universities and other institutions. It comprises essays written by scholars from universities all over Britain – from ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Georges Bigot and Japan, 1882-1899

    Satirist, Illustrator and Artist Extraordinaire

    Edited by Christian Polak, Hugh Cortazzi ...
    Incorporating over 250 illustrations, this is the first comprehensive study in English of French artist and caricaturist George Ferdinand Bigot (1860-1927) who, during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, was renowned in Japan but barely known in his own country. Even today, examples of his cartoons appear in Japanese school textbooks. Inspired by what he saw of Japanese culture and way ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • British Foreign Secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990

    Aspects of the Evolution of British Foreign Policy

    Edited by Anthony Best, Hugh Cortazzi ...
    This book reviews the role of British Foreign Secretaries in the formulation of British policy towards Japan from the re-opening of Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It also takes a critical look at the history of British relations with Japan over these years. Beginning with Lord John Russell (Foreign Secretary 1859-1865) and concluding with ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Carmen Blacker

    Scholar of Japanese Religion, Myth and Folklore: Writings and Reflections

    Edited by Hugh Cortazzi ...
    Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore – her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. Importantly, a third of the volume comprises significant extracts from the author’s diaries covering a period of more than forty years, together with a plate section drawn from ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972

    Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo

    Edited by Hugh Cortazzi ...
    John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the widely acclaimed Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain following the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment that had earlier marked the relationship between the two countries. He brought to his role a ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Mitford's Japan

    Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906

    Edited by Hugh Cortazzi ...
    Series series Japan Library
    As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills, accuracy and objective reporting - qualities which are sometimes overshadowed by the higher profile given ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Researching Chinese Learners

    Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

    Edited by L. Jin, M. Cortazzi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners' learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly the processes of reciprocal intercultural adaptations in a wide international context of Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Researching Intercultural Learning

    Investigations in Language and Education

    Edited by L. Jin, M. Cortazzi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    International perspectives on intercultural learning are presented within a framework of cultures of learning related to education and language learning and use in academic contexts. Intercultural learning involves learners travelling to learn in a place where other cultures of learning are dominant and to which they are usually expected to adapt. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Britain and Japan

    Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV

    Edited by Hugh Cortazzi ...
    Series series Japan Library
    The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published to ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Thames and I

    A Memoir by Prince Naruhito of Two Years at Oxford

    by Naruhito ...
    Translated by Hugh Cortazzi ...
    Prior to becoming Crown Prince of Japan in 1989, following the death of his grandfather Emperor Showa, Prince Naruhito studied at Merton College, Oxford, from June 1983 to October 1985. His research topic was the River Thames as a commercial highway in the eighteenth century. This marked the first time that anyone in direct succession to the throne had ever studied outside Japan. In 1992, he ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018

    150 Years of Association, Engagement and Celebration

    by Peter Kornicki, Hugh Cortazzi, Antony Best ...
    This new scholarly study examines the history of the relations between the British and Japanese monarchies over the past 150 years. Complemented by a significant plate section which includes a number of rarely seen images, as well as a chronology of royal/imperial visits and extensive bibliography, British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018, will become a benchmark reference on the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Researching Cultures of Learning

    International Perspectives on Language Learning and Education

    by Lixian Jin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language learning. The concept can be used to explore socio-cultural features of language learning and use contexts in educational institutions, and cultural practices of pedagogic activities and classroom interaction. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD