Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG, was British Ambassador to Japan, 1980-1984 and Chairman of The Japan Society, London, 1985-1995. He has written extensively on Japan, his many books including Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), The Japanese Achievement (1990), and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He has also collated and edited for The Japan Society six volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, as well as Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views (2001) and British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972 (2004). He continues to be a regular contributor to The Japan Times and other periodicals.
11 Ebooks por Hugh Cortazzi
Hugh Cortazzi: Hugh Cortazzi – Collected Writings
Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts, business and foreign affairs. …
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€56.74
Hugh Cortazzi: Hugh Cortazzi – Collected Writings
Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts, business and foreign affairs. …
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€56.89
Hugh Cortazzi: Japan Experiences – Fifty Years, One Hundred Views
This unique volume comprising writings and memoirs covering the half century since the end of the Pacific War, offers the reader a fascinating and remarkable collection of personal experiences of Jap …
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€37.39
Hugh Cortazzi: Japan Experiences – Fifty Years, One Hundred Views
This unique volume comprising writings and memoirs covering the half century since the end of the Pacific War, offers the reader a fascinating and remarkable collection of personal experiences of Jap …
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€37.26
Hugh Cortazzi: Mitford’s Japan
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 feud …
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€62.72
Hugh Cortazzi: Mitford’s Japan
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 feud …
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€63.15
Hugh Cortazzi: Britain and Japan
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 …
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€56.49
Hugh Cortazzi: Britain and Japan
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 …
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€56.47
Cortazzi Hugh Cortazzi: Dr Willis in Japan: 1862-1877
This is a fascinating account of the fifteen years spent in Japan by William Willis, a British medical pioneer. Quite apart from the importance of his reports on medical practice and the spread of We …
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€196.03
Webb George Webb & Cortazzi Hugh Cortazzi: Kipling’s Japan
Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling’s newspaper dispatches from Japan were de …
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€196.23
Cortazzi Hugh Cortazzi: Victorians in Japan
An anthology of impressions, ‘snapshots’ and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Ko …
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€185.24
