Oswald ‘Shiro’ White (1884-1970): Thirty-eight Years in the Japan Consular Service – with Hugo Read

Hugo Read is the great-grandson of Oswald White, who spent 38 years in the Japan Consular Service (1903-1941). He contributed a portrait of Oswald White published in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. X (Renaissance Books, 2016). White’s Memoir, All Ambition Spent, edited by Hugo Read was published in 2017 also by Renaissance Books.

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