F. Brinkley

Francis Brinkley (1841–1912) was an Irish-born soldier, journalist and scholar of Japan. Trained as an artillery officer, he went to Japan in 1867 and spent the rest of his life there, teaching gunnery to the Japanese navy and later mathematics, before becoming owner and editor of the Japan Mail, an English-language newspaper in Yokohama. He married a Japanese woman, collected Japanese art and wrote widely on Japan and China, including a multivolume Japan: Its History, Arts and Literature, a Japanese-English dictionary and, with Baron Kikuchi, A History of the Japanese People.