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Those Japanese who arrived in Victorian Britain to work or study required to be adaptable and flexible. Not only was the pace and mode of life in Britain different from that in Japan but they were forced to live and work by communicating in a language other than their own. It is true that there were those in Britain who would be helpful and supportive but even so the shock of life in a strange country offered many challenges to all Japanese living here.
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The Mikado was given in Yokohama once only (under a different title) and was never performed again in Japan before the Second World War. For the Japanese response to the opera see Y. Kurata, 1952, Nen London Nihonjin Mura (The Japanese Village in London, 1885) Tokyo, 1983, pp. 151–7. My thanks to Takeshi Hamashita and Naoki Watanabe for their help.
W. S. Gilbert, Original Plays, 1928 edition, p. 177.
Soseki Natsume, distinguished Japanese writer in London between 1900 and 1912, was unhappy; for his time in Pitlochry, Perthshire see M. Inagaki, Soseki and his Journey in England (in Japanese) Tokyo, 1987.
Obituary Dr Motoreru Haramiishi, TNECSS, vol. 52, 1935, pp. 142–3.
H. J. Edwards, ‘Japanese Undergraduates at Cambridge University’, JSL, vol. VII, 1904–7, 1908, p. 54.
See ‘Love Letters of a Japanese’ edited by Marie Stopes, under the pseudonym ‘G. N. Mortlake’; M. C. Stopes, A Journal from Japan; R. Hall, Marie Stopes: A Biography, 1977.
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Checkland, O. (1989). Japanese Life in Britain. In: Britain’s Encounter with Meiji Japan, 1868–1912. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10609-7_11
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