TY - BOOK ID - 9347327 TI - Holme, Ringer & Company PY - 2012 SN - 9004230173 9004243216 128385435X 9789004243217 9789004230170 PB - Leiden Boston Global Oriental DB - UniCat KW - Business enterprises, Foreign -- Japan -- History. KW - Great Britain -- Commerce -- Japan -- History. KW - Holme, Ringer & Company. KW - Japan -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History. KW - Merchants, Foreign -- Japan -- History. KW - Trading companies -- Great Britain -- History. KW - Trading companies KW - Business enterprises, Foreign KW - Merchants, Foreign KW - Commerce KW - Business & Economics KW - Local Commerce KW - History KW - History. KW - Great Britain KW - Japan KW - Foreign merchants KW - Foreign business enterprises KW - Export-import companies KW - Foreign trade enterprises KW - Import-export companies KW - Holme, Ringer and Company KW - Nihon KW - Nippon KW - Iapōnia KW - Zhāpān KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Yapan KW - Japon KW - Japão KW - Japam KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Yīpun KW - Jih-pen KW - Riben KW - Government of Japan KW - Business enterprises KW - Foreign trade promotion KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - Nipponkoku KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nihon-koku KW - State of Japan KW - Япония KW - Japani KW - اليابان KW - al-Yābān KW - يابان KW - Yābān KW - Japonsko KW - Giappone KW - Japonia KW - Japonya KW - E-books KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Exports & Imports KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Marketing KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs KW - Jepun KW - Yapon KW - Yapon Ulus KW - I︠A︡pon KW - Япон KW - I︠A︡pon Uls KW - Япон Улс UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9347327 AB - Established in the Nagasaki Foreign Settlement in 1868, Holme, Ringer andamp; Company led foreign business in western Japan up to the eve of the Second World War, engaging not only in the commodities trade and shipping and insurance agencies, but also trawl fishing and Norwegian-style whaling, hotel management, and the introduction of modern technologies such as waterworks, telephones, mechanised flour milling and large-scale petroleum storage. Gathering information from a wide range of sources, the author provides the first detailed description of these activities in Nagasaki and Shimonoseki while shedding light on the remarkable story of Frederick Ringer and his descendants, a British family that contributed to the development of modern Japan but ultimately found it impossible to stay. ER -