Introduction; Alphabetical List of Contributors; Index of Biographical Portraits in Japan Society Publications; PART I: POLITICIANS; 1 Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and Japan; 2 Prime Minister Yoshida in London 1954: The First Visit to Britain by a Japanese Prime Minister; 3 Edward Heath (1916-2005) and Japan: The First Visit of a British Prime Minister to Japan in 1972; 4 Nitobe Inazo in London; 5 Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908): A Diplomat who Recognized the Importance of the Asia-Pacific Region to Japan; PART II: ROYAL MATTERS; 6 The Showa Emperor's State Visit to Britain in 1971; 7 A Royal Alliance: Court Diplomacy and Anglo-Japanese Relations 1900-41; 8 Japanese Tattooists and the British Royal Family during the Meiji Period; PART III: BUSINESS FIGURES (The Japanese car industry and Britain) 9 Toyota and Britain, Britain is one of the countries with which Toyota is most closely associated; 10 Nissan and the British Motor Vehicle Industry (prior to the Nissan investment in the UK in 1984); 11 Nissan Investment in Britain: History of a Negotiation 1980-84; 12 Honda Soichiro (1906-1991) and Honda Motors in Britain; (Other Business leaders) 13 Morita Akio, Sony and Britain; 14 Sir Peter Parker (1924-2002) and Japan; 15 Lord (Eric) Roll of Ipsden (1907-2005), S.G. Warburg and Shirasu Jiro; 16 Chino Yoshitoki and the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation; 17 Frank Guyver Britton (1879-1934), Engineer and Earthquake Hero; 18 Ernest Comfort: The Other British Aviation Mission and Mitsubishi 1921-24; 19 Uyeno Yutaka (born 1915); PART IV: LITERARY FIGURES; 20 Yoshida Ken'ichi (1912-77), Anglophile Novelist, Essayist, Literary Critic, Translator and Man of letters; 21 Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), Novelist, Playwright, Essayist and Traveller; 22 Ian Fleming (1908-64), Novelist and Journalist; 23 Frank Tuohy (1925-99): The Best is Silence; 24 Angela Carter (1940-92) and Japan: Disorientations; PART V: ART COLLECTORS, AN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND AN ARTIST; 25 Charles Holme (1848-1923), Founder of The Studio and Connoisseur of Japanese Art; 26 Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826-97) and James Lord Bowes (1834-1899): Collecting Japan in Victorian England; 27 William Gowland (1842-1922), Pioneer of Japanese Archaeology; 28 Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956): A Marriage of British Art and Japanese Craftsmanship; PART VI: A JOURNALIST, A TEACHER AND THREE SCHOLARS; 29 Hugh Fulton Byas (1875-1945): 'The fairest and most temperate of foreign writers on Japan's political development' between the wars; 30 Edward Gauntlett (1868-1956), English Teacher, Explorer and Missionary; 31 Joseph Henry Longford (1849-1925), Consul and Scholar; 32 Kathleen Mary Drew Baker, British botanist whose studies helped to save the Japanese nori industry; 33 Maruyama Masao and Britain: an intellectual in search of liberal democracy; ENVOI: 34 The Beatles in Japan 1966; APPENDIX: Course of the Nissan Negotiation 1980-84; Notes; Index
