page_title: Japan–United Kingdom relations
section_title: Britons in Japan
hierarchical_section_title: Japan–United Kingdom relations / Britons in Japan
caption_attribution_description: English: UK Embassy in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan 日本語: 日本国東京都にある駐日英国大使館
context_page_description: Japan–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: William Adams (Miura Anjin) - Hatamoto & Advisor to the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
  Arthur Adams - Zoologist who studied Japanese sealife onboard HMS Samarang in 1845
  Rutherford Alcock - British Diplomat to Japan from 1858 - 1864 and the first 'outsider' to climb Mount Fuji in 1860
  William Anderson - A prominent collector who donated to the British Museum
  William George Aston -  Consular official and Japanologist
  Matilda Chaplin Ayrton - Scholar and founder of a Midwife Hospital between 1873 - 1875 in Japan
  William Edward Ayrton - Professor of Physics & Telegraphy at the Imperial College of Engineering, introduced the Arc Lamp to Japan in 1878
  Michael Buckworth Bailey - First Anglican consular staff from 1862 - 1874
  Thomas Baty - Legal advisor to the Japanese Empire
  John Batchelor - Anglican Missionary specialist on the Ainu
  Felice Beato - British/Italian/Corfiote Photographer
  Edward Bickersteth - First Anglican Bishop of South Tokyo
  Isabella Bird - Victorian Traveller and Author
  John Reddie Black - Publisher of newspapers, principally The Far East
  Carmen Blacker - English Japanologist Cambridge lecturer
  Thomas Blakiston - English Naturalist noted for Blakiston's Line and Blakiston's Fish Owl
  Reginald Horace Blyth - Helped to introduce Zen and Haiku to the West during WWII into the 1950s, one of his students being Alan Watts
  Alan Booth - Author of The Roads to Sata and a Noh enthusiast
  Duncan Gordon Boyes - Winner of the Victoria Cross at Shimonoseki, 1864
  William Robert Broughton - Surveyed Eastern Honshu and Hokkaido in the HMS Providence (1791) between 1795 - 1798
  Richard Henry Brunton - Father of Japanese Lighthouses
  Basil Hall Chamberlain - Translator and Prominent Japanologist
  Edward Bramwell Clarke - Professor who helped introduce rugby to Japan
  Richard Cocks - Head Merchant of the first British venture in Hirado from 1613 - 1623
  Samuel Cocking - Yokohama Merchant
  Josiah Conder - Architect known for the Rokumeikan, his books on Japanese gardening and being a pupil of Kawanabe Kyosai
  Hugh Cortazzi - Japanologist and former Ambassador
  James Main Dixon, former FRSE - Scottish Professor who taught Natsume Soseki
  William Gray Dixon - see Land of the Morning
  Archibald Douglas - Foreign Advisor to the Imperial Japanese Navy, introduced football to Japanese Naval Cadets
  Christopher Dresser - Designer and major influence on the Anglo-Japanese style & Writer on Japan
  Henry Dyer - First principal of the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu Daigakko)
  Alfred East - English watercolour artist commissioned by the Fine Art Society to paint scenes in Japan in 1889
  Lord Elgin - Signatory to the British 'unequal' treaty of 1858
  James Alfred Ewing - Scottish Professor
  Henry Faulds - Scottish doctor who founded a hospital in Tsukiji which became the basis for St. Luke's International Hospital and helped introduce Joseph Lister's antiseptic methods to Japanese Surgeons
  Hugh Fraser - British minister 1889–94
  Mary Crawford Fraser - see Diplomatist's Wife in Japan
  Thomas Blake Glover - Scottish trader who was key to the industrialisation of Meiji Japan, smuggled over the Choshu Five to Britain
  Abel Gower - Consul
  William Gowland - Father of Japanese Archaeology
  Thomas Lomar Gray - Engineering Professor and Seismologist
  Arthur Hasketh Groom - Creator of the first golf course in Japan
  John Harington Gubbins - Diplomat to the Empire of Japan
  Nicholas John Hannen - British barrister for the British Supreme Court for China and Japan from 1871–1900 in varying roles
  Edward Atkinson Hornel - Scottish Artist influenced by Japanese design who visited from 1893–1894
  Collingwood Ingram - known as "Cherry Ingram", a specialist cherry tree collector
  Grace James - Japanese folklorist and childrens Writer
  Cargill Gilston Knott - Scottish Physicist whose work in seismology led to the first earthquake hazard survey of Japan
  Frank Toovey Lake – Young sailor who died aged 19 interred in Sanuki Hiroshima whose grave has been up-kept since 1868
  Bernard Leach - An influential Potter whose formative years were spent in Japan
  Mary Cornwall Legh - Anglican Missionary 
caption: Embassy of the United Kingdom in Tokyo
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