Britain and Japan Vol II

This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities including Edmund Morel pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan Alexander Shand an important figure in the development of Japanese banking Lafcadio Hearn the great interpreter of Japanese culture Rev. Dr. John Batchelor whose work with the Ainu people of northern Japan is legendary and more recently Shigeru Yoshida Japan's first post-war prime minister and Christmas Humphreys founder of the Buddhist Society.