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In the 1920s, once the Indian Branch was up and running, it became the custom for staff members going out or returning to take a tour of East and South East Asia.

Milford's nephew R. Christopher Bradby went out in 1928.

He returned to Britain just in time, for on 18 October 1931, the Japanese invaded Manchuria.

Miss M. Verne McNeely wrote a letter of protest to the League of Nations and one of despair to Milford, who tried to comfort her.

Japan was a much less well-known market to OUP, and a small volume of trade was carried out largely through intermediaries.

The Maruzen company was by far the largest customer, and had a special arrangement regarding terms.

Other business was routed through H. L.

Griffiths, a professional publishers ’ representative based in Sannomiya, Kobe.

Griffiths travelled for the Press to major Japanese schools and bookshops and took a 10 percent commission.

Edmund Blunden had been briefly at the University of Tokyo and put the Press in touch with the University booksellers, Fukumoto Stroin.

One important acquisition did come from Japan, however: A. S. Hornby's Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

It also publishes textbooks for the primary and secondary education curriculum in Hong Kong.

The Chinese-language teaching titles are published with the brand Keys Press ( 啟思出版社 ).