Social and Cultural Perspectives: (Volume V The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000)

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.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures List of Plates List of Contributors and their Affiliations Foreword Preface:International History - From Diplomacy to Culture Acknowledgements Note on Japanese Names PART 1: INTRODUCTION Elites, Governments and Citizens: Some British Perceptions of Japan, 1850-2000 The Changing Image of Britain among Japanese Intellectuals PART II: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER Early Japanese Visitors to Victorian Britain; Andrew Cobbing The Rituals of Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy: Imperial Audiences in Early Meiji Japan; John Breen For the Triumph of the Cross: A Survey of the British Missionary Movement in Japan, 1869-1945; Hamish Ion Theatre Cultures in Contact: Britain and Japan in the Meiji Period; Brian Powell 'To Adapt, or Not to Adapt': Hamlet in Meiji Japan; Mark Williams & David Rycroft The British Discovery of Japanese Art; Yuko Kikuchi & Toshio Watanabe PART III: TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEMES The Modernist Inheritance of Japanese Historical Studies: Fukuzawa, Marxists and Otsuka Hisao; Kazuhiko Kondo Japanese Feminism and British Influences: The Case of Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980); Kei Imai PART IV: THE INTER-WAR YEARS New Liberalism and Welfare Economics: British Influences and Japanese Intellectuals Between the Wars - Fukuda Tokuzo and Ueda Teijiro; Tamotsu Nishizawa Yanagi Muneyoshi (1889-1961) and the British Medievalist Tradition; Toshio Kusamitsu Yanaihara Tadao and the British Empire as a Model for Colonial Reform; Susan C.Townsend 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation': The BBC and Japan, 1929-1939; Gordon Daniels & Philip Charrier Anglo-Japanese Trade Union Relations Between the Wars; Takao Matsumura British Writing on Contemporary Japan, 1924-1941: Newspapers, Books, Reviews and Propaganda; Jon Pardoe PART V: THE POSTWAR ERA (1945-2000) British Labour and Japanese Socialists: Convergence and Divergence, 1945-1952; James Babb Masking or Marking Britain's Decline? The British Council and Cultural Diplomacy in Japan, 1952-1970; Christopher Aldous Post-War Japan as a Model for British Reform; Kevin McCormick Index

About the Author :
GORDON DANIELS is Reader in History at Sheffield University. He has written widely on the history of British attitudes, and the Allied Reform of Postwar Japan. CHUSHICHI TSUZUKI was formerly a Professor at Hitosubashi University, Tokyo and the International University of Japan. He has written extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century British and Japanese political and social thought.