Sir Hugh Cortazzi GCMG retired after four years' service as British ambassador to Japan in 1984, but has since been a leading scholar and promoter of better relations between Britain and Japan. He has written and edited many books on the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and Japanese history. He also writes a regular column in the Japan Times, and in 2006 his translation of the Japanese Crown Prince's account of his time at Oxford was published as "The Thames and I". Wikipedia
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