This comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of Japanese policy between the two world wars utilizes both English and Japanese sources to present Japan as an independent agent, not a state whose policy was determined by the actions of other countries. Beginning with Japan's disappointment with the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919, Nish examines the roots of Japanese discontent and feelings that ambitions in China were being unreasonably restrained. He explains British and American policies in the region as reactive, but concludes that their responses helped to determine which factions would dominate Japan's political arena. This non-partisan account is even-handed in apportioning responsibility for the events leading to the Second World War.
While some Japanese politicians in the 1920s tried to follow the international path, there were others who tended to side with the army in establishing Japan's position, first in Manchuria and later in North and Central China in the 1930s. Conscious of the nation's unpopularity in the western world, Japan allied itself with Germany and Italy in the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 and the Tripartite Alliance of 1940. To pursue its own national objectives, Japan joined her allies in making war on the United States and the colonial empires of Britain, France, and the Netherlands. Its forces succeeded in overrunning many colonial territories; and, with a view to easing the problems of occupying them, Japan liberalized its harsh military policies, granting independence to Burma and the Philippines and welcoming Asian leaders to Tokyo for the Greater East Asian Conference of November 1943.

Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period: (Praeger Studies of Foreign Policies of the Great Powers)

History

Nish, Ian

Asia

Praeger

Jap Foreign Pol 1869-1942 V11

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Japanese Foreign Policy 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as well as visiting other countries including Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy.  Drawing on the papers given at the triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, held in Budapest in August 1997 (the year also marking the 125th anniversary of Iwakura's arrival), this volume presents a valuable new overview of the mission as a whole, with the significance and impact of the visit to each country being separately assessed. A supplement to the book looks at several 'post-Iwakura' topics, including a review of the mission's chief chronicler, Kume Kunitake.

The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment (Meiji Japan)

Reference

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1894-1907

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

UNKNO

The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War (Origins Of Modern Wars)

The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 has been seen as the turning point of the development of the modern world. Written by a specialist in Japanese diplomacy, this book has been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as 'diplomatic history at its very best'.

The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment

The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 has been seen as the turning point of the development of the modern world. Written by a specialist in Japanese diplomacy, this book has been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as 'diplomatic history at its very best'.

Following his earlier account of The Anglo-Japanese Alliance from 1894 t0 1907, Dr Nish's book studies the renewal of the alliance in 1911 and the working relationship between the two countries until the alliance ended in 1923.First published in 1972, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Alliance in Decline: A Study of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1908-23 (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan)

Business & Money

Economics

Bloomsbury Academic

In this book Professor Nish deals with one of the most important aspects of far eastern politics in the critical period between 1894 and 1907. His object is to demonstrate how Britain and Japan, at first separately and later jointly, reacted to Russian encroachments in China and east Asia; he is concerned also with the policies of the other European powers and of the U.S., to whose hostility towards the Anglo-Japanese alliance after 1905 Britain showed herself increasingly sensitive.First published in 1966, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1984-1907 (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan)

The personalities, both British and Japanese, who emerged, following the reopening of Japan in the 1860s, as the key players of their generation in Anglo-Japanese relations, offer a rich and rewarding seam of study. In human terms, both countries attracted an extraordinary cross-section of talent and character, not always apparently best-suited to the task, yet frequently acting as catalysts for change.

Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume 1

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Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period: (Praeger Studies of Foreign Policies of the Great Powers)

Japanese Foreign Policy 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka

The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment (Meiji Japan)

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1894-1907

The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War (Origins Of Modern Wars)

The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment

The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War (Origins Of Modern Wars)

Alliance in Decline: A Study of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1908-23 (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan)

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1984-1907 (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan)

Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume 1