ABSTRACT
VERE REDMAN (Sir Vere Redman) was the subject of one of my biographical portraits, which appeared in Biographical Portraits Vol. II, published for the Japan Society by Japan Library in 1997. In this I quoted some of his writings about Japan. As I explained, he was a notable eccentric, but devoted to the improvement of Anglo-Japanese relations. He addressed the Japan Society a number of times, for example, on the subject of the Japan-British Society (in Tokyo) on 7 October 1952; but his most interesting and relevant lecture for our purposes was probably that which he gave to the Society on 16 September 1958 on ‘Things I have learned in and from Japan’.
