The Japan Society Review

By Susumu Nagara Japan Publications Trading Company, 2008, 383 pages Paperback £22.99. ISBN-13: 978-4889962345 Review by Roberta Ignirri

The Business, Life and Letters of Frederick Cornes: Aspects of the Evolution of Commerce in Modern Japan,1861-1910 By Peter N. Davies Global Oriental, 2008, 514 pages including index and appendices, plus a CD of the letters, Hardback £75. ISBN 978-1-905246. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By Robert Twigger Phoenix Publications, 1999, 320 pages. Hardback £7.99. ISBN: 9780753808580 Review by William Farr

By Andrew Cobbing Global Oriental, 2009, 240 pages. Hardback, £55.00. ISBN-13: 978-1905246182. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By Sir Hugh Cortazzi The Japan Society, 2008 ISBN 978-0-9559977-0-9, pp91 – Illus. The Treaty of Yedo, signed by Lord Elgin and the representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate, stands as one of the hallmarks of the long relationship between Japan and Britain. Occurring at a time of great diplomatic and economic dynamism, the treaty presented […]

Edited by Ruth Taplin Routledge, September 2007, 244 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0415428910. Hardback £75 Review by James Brewer

By Asa Nonami Bungei Shunju, June 2008, 206 pages. ISBN 13: 978-4163701400. Paperback ¥1400 Review by Mikihiro Maeda

Sir Ernest Satow’s Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V.Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870-1918 Edited by Ian Ruxton with an introduction by Peter Kornicki Lulu Press inc, 2007, 321 pages including index. ISBN-13: 978-1435710009. £25.50 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

By Shigeru Ishiba Shinchosha, January 2005, 254 pages, ¥ 1300. ISBN-13: 978 – 4104737017 Review by Fumiko Halloran

By Yuriko Koike Bunshun Shinsho, 2007. Price: ¥ 750. ISBN-13: 978 – 4166606023 Review by Fumiko Halloran