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The Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1902-1922
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ISBN: 0415326117 1280075694 0203316673 1134341229 9780415326117 9780203316672 9786610075690 6610075697 9781134341177 9781134341214 9781134341221 9780415546287 1134341210 Year: 2004 Volume: 17 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon


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Empire ascendant : The British world, race, and the rise of Japan, 1894-1914
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ISBN: 9780198837398 0198837399 0191874078 0192574329 0192574337 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East Asia, shielding Japan as it cemented its regional position, and allowing Britain to concentrate on meeting the German challenge in Europe. Yet it was also a relationship shaped by its contradictions. Empire Ascendant examines how officials and commentators across the British imperial system wrestled with the implications of Japan's unique status as an Asian power in an international order dominated by European colonial empires. On the settlement frontiers of Australasia and North America, white colonial elites formulated their own responses to the growth of Japan's power, charged by the twinned forces of colonial nationalism and racial anxiety, as they designed immigration laws to exclude Japanese migrants, developed autonomous military and naval forces, and pressed Britain to rally behind their vision of a 'white empire'. Yet at the same time, the alliance legitimised Japan's participation in great-power diplomacy, and worked to counteract racist notions of a 'yellow peril'. By the late 1900s, Japan stood at the centre of a series of escalating inter-imperial disputes over foreign policy, defence, migration, and ultimately, over the future of the British imperial system itself. This account weaves together studies of diplomacy, strategy, and imperial relations to pose searching questions about how Japan's entry into the 'family of civilised nations' shaped, and was shaped by, ideologies of race. --


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Nagasaki
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ISBN: 1282486160 9786612486166 9004212876 9789004212879 1906876134 9781906876135 9781906876289 1906876282 9781282486164 6612486163 Year: 2009 Publisher: Kent [England] Global Oriental

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Long overdue, this important first full length account in English of the history of Japan’s first foreign settlement, which for centuries was the country’s only ‘front door’to the outside world, will be widely welcomed. Following the opening of Japan’s ports in 1859, Nagasaki rapidly became one of Japan’s leading industrial centres, which included shipbuilding, but, other than the history surrounding the atomic bombing of August 1945, in the post-war period, it has been largely overshadowed by interest in the Meiji settlements of Kobe and Yokohama. Fully illustrated, the value of the work is reinforced by additional key data to be found in the appendices, including the 1866 and 1898 Directories of Foreign Residents, the 1872 List of Property being Rented, a List of Existing Cultural Assets of the Former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement and a chronology of ‘Madame Butterfly and Nagasaki’.

Japanese envoys in Britain, 1862-1964
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ISBN: 1281805793 9786611805791 9004213457 9789004213456 9781905246328 1905246323 9781281805799 6611805796 Year: 2007 Publisher: Folkestone Global Oriental

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Commissioned by the Japan Society as the companion volume to British Envoys in Japan, 1959-1972 (2004), this collection of essays on a century of official Japanese representation in the United Kingdom completes the history of bilateral diplomatic relations up to the mid-1960's, concluding with Ambassador Ohno Katsumi’s highly successful six-year assignment in 1964. In all, twelve authors, half of whom are Japanese , contribute to the work. In addition to the nineteen biographies, there are essays on the history of the Japanese Embassy buildings in London, an overview of Japanese envoys in Britain between 1862 and 1872 by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, as well as aspects of embassy life which illuminate some of the factors impacting on the life-style of residents in London in former times, including an entertaining personal memoir by Ayako Ishizaka of ‘A Diplomat’s Daughter in the 1930's’. By way of appendix, the volume concludes with a short history of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) up to the present day.

The Japanese discovery of Victorian Britain : early travel encounters in the Far West.
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ISBN: 1873410816 Year: 1998 Publisher: Sandgate Japan library

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Britain & Japan : biographical portraits.
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ISBN: 128137170X 9786611371708 9004217851 9789004217850 6611371702 1905246331 9781905246335 9781898823445 9781898823476 9781901903744 9781906876265 1873410271 187341062X 1873410891 1901903486 190335014X 9781898823117 9781898823162 9781898823278 9781898823469 1898823464 1898823448 9004246029 9004246460 Year: 2016 Publisher: Folkestone : Renaissance Books,

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This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton to the history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK at Peterlee and Mitsubishi Electric in Scotland, from scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain, to international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.

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