This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title, incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan, Alexander Shand, an important figure in the development of Japanese banking, Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter of Japanese culture, Rev. Dr. John Batchelor whose work with the Ainu people of northern Japan is legendary and, more recently, Shigeru Yoshida, Japan's first post-war prime minister and Christmas Humphreys, founder of the Buddhist Society.
- ISBN10 187341062X
- ISBN13 9781873410622
- Publish Date 17 February 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 September 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Curzon Press Ltd
- Imprint Japan Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English