G.C. Allen's first job took him to Japan in 1922, and he continued to visit the country and to study its culture up to his death in July 1982. Appointment in Japan is both a historical record of Japan in the 1920s and a study of the changes which have taken place during a critical sixty-year period.
First published in 1983, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
G.C. Allen's first job took him to Japan in 1922, and he continued to visit the country and to study its culture up to his death in July 1982. Appo...
An anthology of impressions, 'snapshots' and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty ports and their vicinity. This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan itself.
First published in 1987, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
An anthology of impressions, 'snapshots' and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in...
