Hugh Cortazzi - Collected Writings

Cortazzi, Hugh

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“…After 1945, under post-war occupation by the US (and marginally by Britain), 96 Japan was forbidden to produce or maintain aircraft, either civil or military. The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 and the rising tensions of the Cold War eased allied restrictions and Japan began producing aeroplanes again in 1952.…”

Section: Uk-japan Collaboration In the Aeronautical Industry: Rolls-rmentioning

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Post-Brexit Britain, the EU and Japan: The car industry, the aeronautical sector and military cooperation

Suzuki¹

2020

Europe and the World: A Law Review

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As a growing economic power Japan experienced trade conflicts with the European Communities (EC; from 1993 onwards the European Union, EU). Although the British government was criticised by EU partners and domestics groups – politicians, industry, trade unions and public opinion – the UK became Japan’s primary gateway to the European single market. In 1973 Japanese multinationals began constructing manufacturing plants in Britain to reduce exports from Japan, to mitigate export duties and to ease these trade conflicts. Brexit, therefore, poses a serious risk and requires Japan to urgently reconsider and redefine its relations with Britain, the EU and other Member States of the EU. On the other hand, uneasy stand-offs in the Asia-Pacific region might push post-Brexit Britain to cooperate more closely with Japan in security matters. China’s territorial disputes with neighbouring countries and North Korea’s nuclear threat will require Japan and Britain to play a more active role in stabilising the region, not only by conducting joint military drills, but also by increasing collaboration in the arms industry. UK–Japan relations are drifting away from their traditional focus on trade and are expanding into the military field.

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Section: Uk-japan Collaboration In the Aeronautical Industry: Rolls-rmentioning

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Post-Brexit Britain, the EU and Japan: The car industry, the aeronautical sector and military cooperation

Suzuki¹

2020

Europe and the World: A Law Review

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“…It is hard to say, whether the policy of soft power was used by the British ambassadors in bakumatsu 1 and Meiji 2 Japan with full awareness the same way it functions nowadays, however, the features of this policy can be traced in the actions of the British legation under command of Sir Harry Smith Parkes, who encouraged all members of his mission to research Japanese culture [7]. As Hugh Cortazzi (himself an ambassador with years of diplomatic career) quotes after Beasley, ‗In so far Parkes went beyond his diplomatic brief, defined in terms of defending British interests, it was more in the service of -enlightenment‖ (bunmei kaika)'.…”

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A.B. Mitford as a Cultural Diplomat and the Image Of Japan in Victorian England

Gubinskaya

2020

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In this article, I study the writings of a Victorian time British diplomat Algernon Bertram Mitford (1837-1916) and his book Tales of Old Japan (1871) through the lens of cultural diplomacy. Contemplating his accomplishments with the use of a modern notion of cultural diplomacy as a facet of soft power, I give the overview of Mitford‘s biography, historical context for the publication of his book, its distinctive features within the corpus of the XIX century Japan-related writings (including travelogues, journal and newspaper articles, and pseudo-anthropological re-searches) and its place in the process of formation of the image of Japan in Victorian England. In the last part of the article, I discuss the idea of orientalism vs. exoticism and ‗diplomatic forgery‘ as formulated by U. Eco and their applicability to Mitford‘s writing. As a complex notion, cultur-al diplomacy may be seen in different ways by the cultural am-bassador himself, and the scho-lars, analysing his contribution in retrospective. Not a single article re-searches the success of Mitford as cultural ambassador acting on behalf of English culture in Japan. However, by the same token, not a single research on the image of Japan in the Victorian mind can overlook his significance. It might be an important lesson for the descendants not to overestimate the borders of one‘s influence and always to keep the window of possibilities open for what‘s coming next, being careful about one‘s own words, for as in the beginning was a Word, one‘s word might as well stay in the history of humankind and be used against author‘s convictions.

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Forging Ahead with Bread: Nationalism, Networks and Narratives of Progress and Modernity in Japan

Sheng

2017

Feeding Japan

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Hugh Cortazzi - Collected Writings

Cited by 3 publications

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Post-Brexit Britain, the EU and Japan: The car industry, the aeronautical sector and military cooperation

Post-Brexit Britain, the EU and Japan: The car industry, the aeronautical sector and military cooperation

A.B. Mitford as a Cultural Diplomat and the Image Of Japan in Victorian England

Forging Ahead with Bread: Nationalism, Networks and Narratives of Progress and Modernity in Japan

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