[Frank]. British author, born in 1841. Having entered the British army, he went to Japan in 1867 in command of a battery of artillery. In 1871 he became principal instructor at the Marine College, Tokyo, under the Japanese Government, and henceforth devoted himself to things Japanese. He left the army, married a Japanese lady, and in 188I founded the Japan Mail, of which he was proprietor and editor till his death. He was also correspondent for the London Times in Japan. He published Japan (1901); Japan and China (1903), as well as a Japanese-English dictionary, and was the author of the article “Japan” in the earlier volumes of this Encyclopædia. He held a unique position among foreign residents in Japan, alike as a profound student of its history and art, and as a powerful factor in international politics. He died at Tokyo on the 28th of October 1912.
