Autor: Hugh Cortazzi

Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG, was British Ambassador to Japan, 1980-1984 and Chairman of The Japan Society, London, 1985-1995. He has written extensively on Japan, his many books including Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan (1983), The Japanese Achievement (1990), and his memoir Japan and Back and Places Elsewhere (1998). He has also collated and edited for The Japan Society six volumes of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, as well as Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views (2001) and British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972 (2004). He continues to be a regular contributor to The Japan Times and other periodicals.