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Commissioned by the Japan Society as the companion volume to British Envoys in Japan, 1959-1972 (2004), this collection of essays on a century of official Japanese representation in the United Kingdom completes the history of bilateral diplomatic relations up to the mid-1960s, concluding with Ambassador Ohno Katsumi’s highly successful six-year assignment in 1964. In all, twelve authors, half of whom are Japanese , contribute to the work. In addition to the nineteen biographies, there are essays on the history of the Japanese Embassy buildings in London, an overview of Japanese envoys in Britain between 1862 and 1872 by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, as well as aspects of embassy life which illuminate some of the factors impacting on the life-style of residents in London in former times, including an entertaining personal memoir by Ayako Ishizaka of ‘A Diplomat’s Daughter in the 1930s’. By way of appendix, the volume concludes with a short history of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) up to the present day.

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Ian Nish, CBE, is Emeritus Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science and known internationally for his scholarship relating to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, Japanese foreign policy and Anglo-Japanese relations in the twentieth century. Most recently, he was UK Coordinator of the Anglo-Japanese History Project, and to mark the centenary of the Russo-Japanese War compiled and introduced an 8-volume collection of important historical works and documents, The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5 (Global Oriental, 2004). In 2001, two volumes of his Collected Writings were simultaneously published in Britain and Japan by Japan Library and Edition Synapse. In 1991, he received the Order of the Rising Sun (3rd class) as well as the Japan Foundation Award for 1991. In 2007, he was elected Hon.Member of the Japan Academy.

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