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Foreign Policies of the Great Powers FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE GREAT POWERS VOLUME I The Reluctant Imperialists I: British Foreign Policy 1878-1902 C. J. Lowe VOLUME II The Reluctant Imperialists II: British Foreign Policy 1878-1902, The Documents C. J. Lowe VOLUME III The Mirage of Power I: British Foreign Policy 1902-14 C. J. Lowe and M. L. Dockrill VOLUME IV The Mirage of Power II: British Foreign Policy 1914-22 C. J. Lowe and M. L. Dockrill VOLUME V The Mirage of Power HI: 1902-22, The Documents C. J. Lowe and M. L. Dockrill VOLUME VI From Sadowa to Sarajevo: The Foreign Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1866-1914 F. R. Bridge VOLUME VII The Foreign Policy of France from 1914 to 1945 J. Nere VOLUME VIII Italian Foreign Policy 1870-1940 C. J. Lowe and F. Marzari VOLUME IX German Foreign Policy 1871-1914 Imanuel Geiss VOLUME X From Nationalism to Internationalism: US Foreign Policy to 1914 Akira Iriye VOLUME XI Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka Ian Nish Foreign Policies of the Great Powers Volume XI Japanese Foreign Policy 1869-1942 Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka Ian Nish London and New York First published 1977 by Routledge Reprinted 2002 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 First issued in paperback 2010 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © Ian Nish 1977 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested. ISBN 978-0-415-27375-6 (hbk) (Volume 11) ISBN 978-0-415-60622-6 (pbk) (Volume 11) ISBN 978-0-415-26597-3 (set) ISBN 978-1-134-55603-8 (ebk) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original book may be apparent. Japanese Foreign Policy 1869-1942 Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka Ian Nish Reader in International History London School of Economics Routledge & Kegan Paul London, Henley and Boston Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS page ix FOREIGN MINISTERS X INTRODUCTION 1 1 THE IWAKURA PERIOD, 1869-83 9 Origins of the Foreign Ministry 12 Iwakura's policy 17 Korean crisis and its aftermath 21 2 THE MUTSU PERIOD, 1884-96 26 Mutsu's Foreign Ministry 27 Treaty Revision 29 War with China 34 Peace Overtures 39 Assessment 41 3 THE AOKI PERIOD, 1896-1901 44 Aoki's Role in Treaty Revision 46 Far Eastern Crisis of 1898 51 Boxer Disturbances 52 4 THE KOMURA PERIOD, 1901-11 59 Genro and foreign policy 62 Anglo-Japanese alliance 64 v Contents Prelude to the Russian war 69 The Portsmouth Peace 72 Second term at Kasumigaseki 77 5 THE KATO PERIOD, 1911-15 83 Autonomy of the Foreign Ministry 86 The Chinese Revolution 88 First World War 93 The Twenty-one Demands 96 Assessment 103 6 THE ISHII PERIOD, 1915-19 105 Russo-Japanese alliance 106 Mission to Washington 111 Paris Peace Conference 118 7 THE SHIDEHARA PERIOD, 1920-7 126 Washington years, 1919-22 131 The Washington Conference of 1921-2 133 Shantung 135 Washington Naval Treaty 138 Washington aftermath 141 Relations with the Soviets 145 8 THE TANAKA PERIOD, 1927-31 152 Shidehara's China policy, 1924-7 154 Tanaka's China policy, 1927-9 158 Manchurian developments 160 Back to Shidehara 165 London Naval Conference, 1930 166 Tanaka and Shidehara - some concluding thoughts 172 9 THE UCHIDA PERIOD, 1931-3 175 Mukden incident 176 Uchida as foreign minister 183 League of Nations imbroglio 188 Aftermath of Manchukuo 193 vi Contents 10 THE HIROTA PERIOD, 1933-7 197 Changes in Kasumigaseki's role 199 Naval Disarmament 203 China, 1933-7 209 11 THE KONOE PERIOD, 1937-40 218 The China ulcer 222 Entracte in several short movements 227 12 THE MATSUOKA PERIOD, 1940-1 235 Tripartite Pact 237 Japanese-Soviet Relations 240 The American Dilemma 243 To jo and the Supreme Gamble 246 POSTSCRIPT 251 DOCUMENTS 266 NOTES 310 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 329 INDEX 338 vii
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