Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido – Hiroshige/Eisen
By Sebastian Izzard. George Braziller Publisher (New York), 2008, 159 pages, Introduction, map, select bibliography, 70 full-colour prints, ISBN978-0-8076-1593-5, US$80. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
![Nihon no Rekishi wo Eigode Yomu [日本の歴史を英語で読む] (Reading Japanese History in English)](imageresize.php?file=usercontent/f77665a79ae3ca4e59a50b40f71aff16.jpg&opts=w200h900)
Nihon no Rekishi wo Eigode Yomu [日本の歴史を英語で読む] (Reading Japanese History in English)
Akinori Endo [遠藤 昭則] and Henry Buckley. Besutoshinsho, 2009, 192 pages, ISBN: 978-4-12225-9, 740 yen. Review by Sean Curtin.
How I Caused the Credit Crunch: An Insider’s Story of the Financial Meltdown
By Tetsuya Ishikawa. Icon Books Ltd, 2009, ISBN 978-1848310674, £8.99. Review by Natasha Hamilton.
Japan in Late Victorian London: The Japanese Native Village in Knightsbridge and The Mikado, 1885
By Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Sainsbury Institute, 2009, 100 pages including 16 plates, 12 illustrations, bibliography and index, ISBN: 0-9545921-1-5. Review by Sean Curtin.
Japan in Late Victorian London: The Japanese Native Village in Knightsbridge and The Mikado, 1885
By Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Sainsbury Institute, 2009, 100 pages including 16 plates, 12 illustrations, bibliography and index, ISBN: 0-9545921-1-5. Review by Sean Curtin.
Teacher and Three Children (石内尋常高等小学校 花は散れども)
Directed by Shindo Kaneto (新藤兼人). 2008, 118 minutes. Review by Susan Meehan.
Nonko (ノン子36歳 – 家事手伝い)
Directed by Kumakiri Kazuyoshi (熊切和嘉). 2008, 106 minutes. Review by Susan Meehan.
Nagasaki: The British Experience, 1854-1945
By Brian Burke Gaffney. Global Oriental, 2009, 288 pages including index, bibliography, notes and 66 illustrations in colour and black and white, ISBN 978-1-906876-13-5. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe
Compiled by Kunitake Kume, eds. Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young; with an introduction by Ian Nish. Cambridge University Press, 2009, 528 pages. Review by Roger Buckley.