Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century (1845114159) TOWLE

After the horrors of World War II in Asia and the appalling mistreatment of Allied prisoners-of-war by Japanese soldiers during World War II, 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.

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 (1997), Democracy and Peacemaking: Negotiations and Debates (2000) 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, 2005; 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.

Introduction -- Philip Towle * Korekiyo Takahashi and Japan's Victory in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 -- Richard J. Smethurst * Britain and the Japanese Economy during the First World War -- Janet Hunter * Great Britain and Japanese Views of the International Order in the Interwar Period --Fumitaka Kurosawa * Britain and the World Engineering Congress Tokyo 1929 -- Christopher Madeley * Japan's Commercial Penetration into British India and the Cotton Trade Negotiations in the 1930s --Naoto Kagotani * Paul Einzig and the Japanese Empire in 1943 -- Philip Towle * Britain and the Recovery of Japan post-1945 -- Peter Lowe * Shipping and Shipbuilding -- John Weste * Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations since the 1970s -- Hideya Taida * Military and Economic Power: Complementing Each Other's National Strength -- Reinhard Drifte * Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations -- Simon Lee * Japan and the UK at the G8 Summit, 1975 to 2006 -- Hugo Dobson * The Pressure of the Past on Anglo-Japanese Relations Nobuko -- Margaret Kosuge * Notes * Notes on Authors * Bibliography *

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