Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century

One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice

Philip Towle, Nobuko Margaret Kosuge

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781845114152
• eBook ISBN: 9780857711045
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

After the horrors of World War II in Asia - not least the systematic appalling mistreatment of Allied prisoners-of-war by the Japanese military - few would have predicted that Britain's relationship with Japan would flourish into a booming partnership of economic interdependence by the start of the twenty-first century. This ambitious examination of Anglo-Japanese relations over the course of the 20th century charts the fascinating history of how both nations overcame many years of prejudice and bitter conflict to form a bond fused by financial, political and military cooperation. In the 1930s, many Japanese became convinced that their exports were being kept out of India by British tariffs and it was not until the 1980s that the British government fully accepted the futility of any protectionist impulse and encouraged Japanese companies to invest in Britain. Today, each country not only assists the other economically but also no longer blames the other for its own domestic problems.
"Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century" elucidates how both nations have struggled to achieve stability and harmony in their relations with each other in the face of contrasting cultural identities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface by Sir John Boyd
• Introduction by Philip Towle and Nabuko Kosuge
• 1. Korekiyo Takahashi and Japan's Victory in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5 by Richard J. Smethurst
• 2. Britain and the Japanese Economy During the First World War by Janet Hunter
• 3. Great Britain and Japanese Views of the International Order in the Interwar Period by Fumitaka Kurosawa
• 4. Britain and the World Engineering Congress: Tokyo 1929 by Christopher Madeley
• 5. Japan's Commercial Penetration into British India and the Cotton Trade Negotiations in the 1930s by Naoto Kagotani
• 6. Paul Einzag and the Japanes Empire in 1943 by Philip Towle
• 7. Britain and the Recovery of Japan post-1945 by Peter Lowe
• 8. Shipping and Shipbuilding by John Weste
• 9. Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations since the 1970s by Hideya Taida
• 10. Military and Economic Power: Complementing Each Other's National Strength by Reinhard Drifte
• 11. Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economyof Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations by Simon Lee
• 12. Japan and the UK at the G8 Summit, 1975 to 2006 by Hugo Dobson
• 13. The Pressure of the Past on the Anglo-Japanese Relationship by Nobuko Margaret Kosuge
• Notes
• Notes on Contributors
• References
• Index