The history of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1600-2000. Vol. 5, Social and cultural perspectives

V. 5. This pioneering collection of essays by Japanese, British and Canadian scholars demonstrates how individuals, government agencies and non-governmental organizations have confirmed and challenged the ideas of diplomats and statesmen. Case studies of mutual perceptions, feminism, ceremonial, theatre, economic and social thought, fine arts, broadcasting, labour and missionary activity all illustrate how varieties of nationalism and internationalism have shaped the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. Furthermore it reveals the British admiration of Japan and a desire to emulate Japanese efficiency as a recurring theme in debates on the condition of Britain in the twentieth century Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Elites, Governments and Citizens: Some British Perceptions of Japan, 1850–2000....Pages 3-16 The Changing Image of Britain among Japanese Intellectuals....Pages 17-40 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 Early Japanese Visitors to Victorian Britain....Pages 43-59 The Rituals of Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy: Imperial Audiences in Early Meiji Japan....Pages 60-76 For the Triumph of the Cross: A Survey of the British Missionary Movement in Japan, 1869–1945....Pages 77-102 Theatre Cultures in Contact: Britain and Japan in the Meiji Period....Pages 103-117 ‘To Adapt, or Not to Adapt?’ Hamlet in Meiji Japan....Pages 118-145 The British Discovery of Japanese Art....Pages 146-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 The Modernist Inheritance in Japanese Social Studies: Fukuzawa, Marxists and Otsuka Hisao ....Pages 173-188 Japanese Feminism and British Influences: The Case of Yamakawa Kikue (1890–1980)....Pages 189-205 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 New Liberalism and Welfare Economics: British Influences and Japanese Intellectuals Between the Wars — Fukuda Tokuzo and Ueda Teijiro....Pages 209-219 Yanagi Muneyoshi (1889–1961) and the British Medievalist Tradition....Pages 220-226 Yanaihara Tadao and the British Empire as a Model for Colonial Reform....Pages 227-245 ‘Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation’: The BBC and Japan, 1929–1939....Pages 246-264 Anglo-Japanese Trade Union Relations Between the Wars....Pages 265-280 British Writing on Contemporary Japan, 1924–1941: Newspapers, Books, Reviews and Propaganda....Pages 281-312 Front Matter....Pages 313-313 British Labour and Japanese Socialists: Convergence and Divergence, 1945–1952....Pages 315-329 Masking or Marking Britain’s Decline? The British Council and Cultural Diplomacy in Japan, 1952–1970....Pages 330-351 Post-War Japan as a Model for British Reform....Pages 352-377 Back Matter....Pages 378-390 V. 4. This volume is concerned with the development of business and economic relations between Britain and Japan from the early seventeenth century up to the late twentieth century. Particular attention is given to commodity trade, capital flows, the transfer of knowledge and the overall balance of economic power between the two nations. Mutual perceptions of economic strengths and weaknesses are also considered, and the economic relationship located in the broader context of political and strategic interaction V. 3. This volume presents 19 original essays by Japanese, British and other international historians and covers the evolving military relationship from the 19th century through to the end of the 20th century. The main focus is on the interwar period when both military establishments shifted from collaboration to conflict, as well as wartime issues such as the treatment of POWs seen from both sides, the Occupation of Japan and war crimes trials V. 1. This volume deals with relations between Japan and Britain in the poetical diplomatic sphere from 1931 to the present day. From the political diplomatic standpoint, it discusses the deteriorating relationship of the 1930s and leads on to the development of increasingly healthy postwar relations. The book consists of parallel essays from Japanese and British academic specialists V. 2. This volume deals with relations between Japan and Britain in the poetical-diplomatic sphere from 1931 to the present day. From the political-diplomatic standpoint, it discusses the deteriorating relationship of the 1930s and leads on to the development of increasingly healthy postwar relations. The book consists of parallel essays from Japanese and British academic specialists Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.