Kitamura, Hiroshi, Murata, Ryohei, Okazaki, Hisahiko

Between Friends: Japanese Diplomats Look at Japan-U.S. Relations

Politics & Social Sciences

Kitamura, Hiroshi

Murata, Ryohei

Okazaki, Hisahiko

Politics & Government

Weatherhill

<p>Toward the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted from his home Kishu-han as a result of his father's defeat in a power struggle. To avenge this, Mutsu bolstered his talent to become a man of "genius and learning in equal measure." He joined the Kobe Naval Training Center founded by Katsu Kaishu and, later, Kaientai, a trading and shipping company and private navy founded and managed by Sakamoto Ryoma before the Meiji Restoration was accomplished. During the Meiji era, Mutsu fully exercised his extraordinary ability, including working to revise unequal treaties with Western powers as foreign minister. In his last days, he scrambled to end the First Sino-Japanese War; his efforts resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki with favorable terms for Japan. Mutsu also helped Japan ride out the subsequent wave of the Tripartite Intervention from Russia, France, and Germany. This book's author, a career diplomat himself, traces the footsteps of modern Japan's diplomacy by reviewing the philosophical and political journey of this extraordinary diplomat who protected the dignity of Japan as a modern nation throughout his professional life.</p>

Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time

Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Yoshida Shigeru and His Time

<p>Recognition of Manchukuo-Speedy Seizure of Manchuria/Withdrawal from the League of Nations and Establishment of Manchukuo-State Socialism and Harmony of Five Races in Manchuria/Last Days of Peace-After the Manchurian Incident,an Opportunity to Improve Sino-Japanese Relations/The February 26 Incident-Drastic Change of Current in Japan in 1935-36/The Looming Shadow of War-Drastic Changes in Asia and Europe,1935 and 1936/Marco Polo Bridge Incident-China Getting Ready to Fight Back Against Japan/Siege of Nanjing-Diplomatic Efforts to Settle the Issue Continue in Earnest/Into the Quagmire-Strong Support for Government’s Hardliner Policy/The Tripartite Pact Signed-Some Reject It to the End/Self-Destructive Matsuoka Diplomacy-Shin Taisei Undo Is Widely Supported</p>

Shigemitsu and Togo and Their Time

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