The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–1858

   • Derek Massarella

   Pages 1-30

3. Aspects of Early Anglo-Japanese Relations

   • Kato Eiichi

   Pages 31-59

4. The Opening of Japan and the Meiji Restoration, 1837–72

   • Kato Yuzo

   Pages 60-86

5. From Conflict to Co-operation: British Naval Surveying in Japanese Waters, 1845–82

   • W. G. Beasley

   Pages 87-106

6. The Era of the Unequal Treaties, 1858–99

   • James Hoare

   Pages 107-130

7. From Unequal Treaty to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1867–1902

   • Inouye Yuichi

   Pages 131-158

8. The Opening of the Twentieth Century and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1895–1923

   • Murashima Shigeru

   Pages 159-196

9. Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1902–23: a Marriage of Convenience

   • David Steeds

   Pages 197-223

10. Anglo-Japanese Co-operation in China in the 1920s

    • Goto-Shibata Harumi

    Pages 224-254

11. Echoes of Alliance, 1920–30

    • Ian Nish

    Pages 255-278

12. Back Matter

    Pages 279-282

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The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600-1930, consists of parallel essays by Japanese and British academic specialists covering comprehensively the history of relations between Japan and Britain from the first contacts in the seventeenth century to the present. This study, and its companion, Volume 2, demonstrates that, in the political-diplomatic sphere, while there have been periods of serious disagreement, there has been on the whole a relationship of harmony and mutual understanding.

• China
• Japan
• restoration

'This first clear and highly readable volume comprises ten parallel essays by Japanese and British scholars which chart the changing course of relations over the past four hundred years: from the early years from 1600 (Massarella and Kato Eiichi), through Britian's role in the opening of Japan in the 1860s and the years of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (Kato Yuzo, Beasley, Hoare and Inouye Yuichi), to the pragmatic cooperation which continued, especially in China, until 1930 (Murashima Shgeru, Steeds, Goto-Shibata Harumi and Nish).' - The Japan Society

• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Ian Nish

• University of Tokyo, Japan

  Yoichi Kibata

W.G. BEASLEY Professor Emeritus of Far Eastern History, University of London KATO EIICHI Niigata Sangyo University GOTO-SHIBATA HARUMI Chiba University JAMES HOARE Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London YOICHI KIBATA Professor, University of Tokyo DEREK MASSARELLA Chuo University IAN NISH Professor Emeritus of International History, University of London MURASHIMA SHIGERU formerly Niigata University DAVID STEEDS formerly Senior Lecturer in Far Eastern Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth INOUYE YUICHI Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs KATO YUZO President, Yokohama City University.

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