Table of Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations – vii
Acknowledgements – x
Preface by Sir John Boyd – xi
Introduction by Philip Towle and Nabuko Kosuge – xiii
1. Korekiyo Takahashi and Japan’s Victory in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5 (Richard J. Smethurst) – 1
2. Britain and the Japanese Economy during the First World War (Janet Hunter) – 15
3. Great Britain and Japanese Views of the International Order in the Interwar Period (Fumitaka Kurosawa) – 33
4. Britain and the World Engineering Congress: Tokyo 1929 (Christopher Madeley) – 46
5. Japan’s Commercial Penetration into British India and the Cotton Trade Negotiations in the 1930s (Naoto Kagotani) – 62
6. Paul Einzig and the Japanese Empire in 1943 (Philip Towle) – 82
7. Britain and the Recovery of Japan post-1945 (Peter Lowe) – 97
8. Shipping and Shipbuilding (John Weste) – 107
9. Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations since the 1970s (Hideya Taida) – 119
10. Military and Economic Power: Complementing Each Other’s National Strength (Reinhard Drifte) – 128
11. Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations (Simon Lee) – 138
12. Japan and the UK at the G8 Summit, 1975-2006 (Hugo Dobson) – 152
13. The Pressure of the Past on the Anglo-Japanese Relationship (Nobuko Margaret Kosuge) – 166
Notes – 180
Notes on Contributors – 207
References – 211
Index - 227

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Examines Anglo-Japanese relations over the course of the 20th century, charting the history of how both nations overcame many years of prejudice and bitter conflict to form a bond fused by financial, political and military cooperation. This work looks at how both nations have struggled to achieve stability and harmony in their relations.

About the Author

Philip Towle is Reader in International Relations at the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University, where he has taught since 1980. He worked previously for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Australian National University in Canberra and the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. His publications include 'Enforced Disarmament from the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War', 'Democracy and Peacemaking: Negotiations and Debates' and 'From Ally to Enemy: Anglo-Japanese Military Relations, 1900-45'. Nobuko Margaret Kosuge is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, Yamanashi Gakuin University and a former Visiting Scholar at the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University. Her past publications include 'Post-war Reconciliation'; 'Japanese Prisoners of War' with Philip Towle and Yoichi Kibata and 'War Memories and the Far Eastern Prisoners of War' with Yoichi Kibata and Philip Towle.