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Print: $33.95 Download: $10.00 The distinguished Victorian scholar-diplomat Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929) was a prominent Japanologists when Japan began to open up to foreigners in the mid-1850s. He shared this honour with Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935) and the two addressees of the letters reproduced here by permission of the UK National Archives: co-worker William George Aston (1841-1911) and Frederick Victor Dickins (1838-1915).
This book is part of a series in which Ian Ruxton is making some of the extensive Satow Papers publicly available for the first time. It includes an introduction by Professor Peter Kornicki of Cambridge University, 8 illustrations, 166 annotations, two appendices, a bibliography and an index. (xvi + 330 pp.) Also sold on amazon, Kinokuniya etc.
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Print: $25.00 Download: $6.25 PAPERBACK This well-researched history first written in Japanese by Noboru Koyama and published in Tokyo in 1999, has been translated by Ian Ruxton. This fascinating case study is centred on the first Japanese graduate of Cambridge University, mathematician and academic Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917). Others who went on to distinguished careers include the scholar and statesman Suematsu Kencho (1855-1920) and the scholar-diplomat Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908). This story, told for the first time in English, should interest all students of the Meiji era. The book includes nine black & white images, an introduction, a preface, seven appendices, an expanded bibliography and an improved index. 235 pages. HARDCOVER. Preview/プレビュー.
"...[T]his is of interest to historians and Cambridge graduates alike." (Kansai Time Out)
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Print: $45.00 Download: $12.50 The Peking (Beijing) diaries (1900-06) of the great Victorian-Edwardian diplomat Sir Ernest Satow, published for the first time ever on lulu.com, by permission of the National Archives (UK) on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, with an introduction by China expert J.E. Hoare. Satow was Britain's top diplomat in China when he wrote this journal, as he called it. He replaced Sir Claude MacDonald after the Siege of the Peking Legations which occurred during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, and he observed the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) from Peking. Volume One of two volumes (total 812 pages). 420 pages in this volume with many footnotes, and a 73-page index of names in Volume Two.
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Library of Congress Control No.: 2007369370
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $39.95 HARDCOVER DE LUXE. The story of Katsuyuki Kiyomiya's miraculous five years (2001-06) coaching Japan's top university rugby team, written by the coach himself as the bestselling Kyuukyoku no Shouri (pubd. Feb. 2006) and translated into English. Kiyomiya's record over five years is outstanding: Played 70, Won 62, Drawn 1, Lost 7. Tipped as a probable future coach of Japan, in March 2006 he became the highly successful full-time professional head coach of Suntory Sungoliath in Japan's Top League.
The tragic sub-plot is the murder in Iraq in 2003 of rugby player-diplomat Katsuhiko ("Katsu") Oku, Kiyomiya's senior who invented the ULTIMATE CRUSH slogan. Mr. Kiyomiya created the Oku-Inoue Fund for the children of Iraq to honour him.
Reviewed in Rugby World, Feb. 2007 issue.
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Print: $43.50 Download: $8.75 This book contains part of the voluminous work-related private correspondence sent to Sir Ernest Satow while he was Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan (1895-1900) from the Satow Papers held at The National Archives, Kew, London, transcribed and published in full from handwritten originals with annotations for scholars and researchers. Some of the letters are from superiors at the Foreign Office and some from the Office of Works about buildings, but most are from subordinates (Tokyo legation staff and consular staff at Hakodate, Kobe and Nagasaki). A very few replies from Satow himself are included. This book offers a rare glimpse at hitherto unpublished material. Crown copyright material is reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO. Also on all amazon websites.
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Print: $43.90 Download: $12.50 The Peking (Beijing) diaries (1900-06) of the great Victorian-Edwardian diplomat Sir Ernest Satow, published for the first time ever on lulu.com, by permission of the National Archives (UK) on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Satow was Britain's top diplomat in China when he wrote this journal, as he called it. He replaced Sir Claude MacDonald after the Siege of the Peking Legations which occurred during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, and he observed the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) from Peking. Volume Two of two volumes (total 812 pages). 392 pages in this volume, which includes many footnotes and the index of names (73 pages) for both volumes. Volume One.
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Library of Congress Control No.: 2007369370
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Hardcover Print: $34.94 This well-researched HARDCOVER book (PAPERBACK also available), first written in Japanese by Noboru Koyama and published in Tokyo in 1999, has been translated by Ian Ruxton. This fascinating case study is centred on the first Japanese graduate of Cambridge University, mathematician and academic Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917). Others who went on to distinguished careers include the scholar and statesman Suematsu Kencho (1855-1920) and the scholar-diplomat Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908). This story, told for the first time in English, should interest all students of the Meiji era in Japan. The book includes nine black & white images, an introduction, a preface, seven appendices, an expanded bibliography and an improved index. 235 pages. The hardcover is only available here on lulu.com.
"...[T]his is of interest to historians and Cambridge graduates alike." (Kansai Time Out, June 2006)
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Print: $54.50 Download: $10.00 The diplomat Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) left many important papers (diaries and letters) in the Public Record Office (now the UK National Archives). This book is a complete and unabridged collection of his semi-official ('demi-official' in the contemporary jargon) private letters as Her Britannic Majesty's envoy to Japan (1895-1900) and China (1900-1906), with an introduction by noted Foreign Office historian and East Asia expert J.E. Hoare and annotations by Ian Ruxton. These handwritten copies of letters carefully recorded in the author's Letter Books have been transcribed into book form for the first time ever by permission of the National Archives. The aim is to make these valuable documents more easily accessible to scholars and students worldwide. Also available on the amazon websites.
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Print: $32.50 Download: $10.00 The true story of Katsuyuki Kiyomiya's miraculous five years (2001-06) coaching Japan's top university rugby team, written by the coach himself as the bestselling Kyuukyoku no Shouri (pub. Feb. 2006), translated by Ian Ruxton. Kiyomiya's record over five years is: Played 70, Won 62, Drawn 1, Lost 7 with wins over Toyota Verblitz, NZU, Oxford and Cambridge. Tipped as a future coach of Japan, in March 2006 he became the head coach of Suntory Sungoliath in Japan's Top League.
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