Conflict and Amity in East Asia Essays in Honour of Ian Nish [Paperback]

This volume examines aspects of international relations in East Asia from 1895 to the present with particular reference to the role of Japan: the principal theme pursues the antecedents, nature, and consequences of the Pacific war (1941-5). The topics examined focus on the course of Japanese expansion, American-Japanese relations, Japanese reactions to war, the role of women during the conflicts in China and the Pacific, Anglo-American policies towards Japan, China, and Korea after 1945, Japanese-New Zealand relations, and Anglo-Japanese relations from the 1950s to the 1980s.Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributers - The Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1896; W.G.Beasley - Tanaka Diplomacy and its Pro-British Orientation 1927-1929; H.Chihiro - The Road to Singapore: Japan's View of Britain 1922-1941; I.Kiyoshi - Culture in Japanese Foreign Affairs; A.Iriye - An Absence of Change: Women in the Japanese Labour Force, 1937-1945; J.Hunter - Wartime Japanese Planning: A Note on Akira Iriye; L.Allen - Roosevelt and the Making of America's Eastern Policy, 1941-1945; T.G.Fraser - A Particularly Vital Issue?: Harry Truman's Japan, 1945-1952; R.Buckley - Coming to Terms with Japan: New Zealand's Experience, 1945-1963; A.Trotter - Challenge and Readjustment: Anglo-American Exchanges over East Asia, 1949-1953; P.Lowe - Economic Relations between Great Britain and Japan since 1952: A Personal View; Sir H.Cortazzi - The Writings of Ian Nish - Notes - Index