＊This Edition Synapse collection is now available outside Japan from Routledge. It brings together primary-source materials on the Japan–British Exhibition of 1910 held at London's Shepherd’s Bush from 14 May to 29 October 1910. It was the largest international exposition that the Empire of Japan had participated in to date, and was driven by a desire in Japan to develop a more favourable public image in Great Britain following the renewal of the Anglo–Japanese Alliance. It was also hoped that the display of manufactured products would lead to increased trade with Britain.

＊The lavishly illustrated collection brings together eleven publications, including various guidebooks, illustrated catalogues of exhibited Japanese fine arts, the official report, a collected volume of articles from The Times, and miscellaneous publications and souvenir books published on the occasion of the Exhibition. All the carefully collated works are reprinted as facsimiles of the originals.

Professor Toshihiro Tanaka graduated from Osaka University of Commerce and had post-graduation education at both Columbia and Syracuse Universities from where he obtained the MA. His teaching career started as research assistant at Kwansei Gakuin University in 1953 and studied and taught the history of economic thought there for about 45 years until his retirement in 1998. During the period at the University, he occupied important posts such as Dean of the Department of Economics and Dean of the Library. His research experiences also included some years in UK as a visiting scholar at Glasgow and Cambridge Universities as well as in China as an exchange professor of Jilin University. In addition to many of his educational responsibilities at the university, he contributed actively to various academic societies and served as the President of The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought.