This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley, British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton, philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw, the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan, and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.