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The Writings of Ian Nish The Writings of Ian Nish BOOKS Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1894-1907 (London, 1966). The Story of Japan (London, 1968). Alliance in Decline (London, 1972). Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka (London, 1977). The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War (London, 1985). China, Japan and Nineteenth-Century Britain (with D. Steeds; Dublin, 1977). Edited Anglo-Japanese Alienation 1919-1952 (Cambridge, 1982). Contemporary European Writing on Japan (Ashford, 1988). British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print Pt. 1, Series E, vo1s 1-10, Japan 1860-1914 (University Publications of America, 1989). European Studies on Japan (with C. Dunn; Tenterden, 1979). ARTICLES 'Japan's Indecision during the Boxer Disturbances', Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 20, 1961, pp. 449-61. 'British Mercantile Co-operation in the India-China Trade', Journal of South-East Asian History, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 74-91. September 1962. 'Dr. G. E. Morrison and the Portsmouth Conference', Journal of Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 48, pp. 426-35, March 1963. 'Dr. G. E. Morrison and Japan', Journal of the Oriental Society ofAustralia, vol. II, no. 1, 1963. 'Australia and the Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1901-1911', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. LX, no. 2, November 1963. 'Japan Reverses the Unequal Treaties: The Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1894', Papers of Hong Kong International Conference on Asian History, no. 20, September 1964. 'Korea, Focus of Russo-Japanese Diplomacy, 1898-1903', Asian Studies, vol. IV, no. 1, April 1966. 'Japan and the Ending of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance', in K. Bourne and D. C. Watt (eds), Studies in International History. Essays Presented to W. N. Medlicott (Longmans Green, 1967). 182 The Writings of Ian Nish 183 'Is Japan a Great Power?' in G. W. Keaton and G. Schwarzenberger (eds) The Year Book of World Affairs, Butterworth 1967. 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'China and Japan, 1905-16', (with E. W. Edwards) in F. H. Hinsley (ed.), British Foreign Policy under Sir Edward Grey, Cambridge University Press, 1977. 'Japan's War History Series: List and Commentary', Proceedings of the British Association for Japanese Studies, vol. II, 1977. 'Diplomats in Japan', Journal of the Institute of World Affairs, vol. 26,1978. 'Themes in Japan's Foreign Relations', World Today, May 1978. 'Themas in Japan's buitenlandse betrekkingen', Internationale Spectator, XXXII, no. 5 (May 1978) pp. 313-18. 'A Japanese Diplomat looks at Europe 1920-39' in I. H. Nish and C. Dunn (eds), European Studies on Japan. London: Norbury 1979. 'Nihongaku to Chagokugaku' (Japanese studies and Chinese studies), in Kokusai Koryu, no. 18, 1978. 'The Korean War', English Historical Review, vol. 93, 1978. 'Mr Yoshida at the London Embassy, 1936-8 Bulletin of the Japan Society of London, no. 87 (1978) pp. 3-7. 184 Conflict and Amity in East Asia 'Japan's Search for Security: the Last Hundred Years', Perspectives on Japan. vol. 2, 1979, pp. 13-16. 'Japan and the Singapore Base', Bulletin of the Japan Society of London, no. 92 (November 1980) pp. 11-13. 'Japan's Security Preoccupations', The World Today, November 1980. 'Japan's zorgen overzign veiligheid', Internationale Spectator, November 1980. 'Regaining Confidence: Japan After the Loss of Empire' , Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 15, 1980. 'Japan in Britain's View of the International System, 1919-37' in I. H. Nish (ed.), Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952: Papers of the Anglo-Japanese Confer­ ence on the History of the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 1982. 'Japan - The Foreign Ministry' in Zara Steiner (ed.), The Times Survey of Foreign Ministries of the World, Time Books, 1982. 'Anglo-Japanese Relations', Contemporary Review, vol. 239, no. 1390, November 1981, pp. 231--6. 'The Three-Power Intervention of 1895', in AR. Davis and AD. Stefanowska (eds), Austrina, Oriental Society of Australia, 1982. 'Yoshida Shigeru: His Life and Times', Hosei Occasional Papers, 1983. 'Naval Thinking and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1900-4', Hogaku Kenkyu, vol. 56, no. III, 1983. 'Japan's Second South-East Asia', Contemporary Review, vol. 243, no. 1411, August 1983, pp. 79-82. The Greater East Asian Coprosperity Sphere' in K. Neilson (ed.), Coalition War­ fare, St. Laurent Press, 1984. 'Japanese Intelligence and the Approach of the Russo-Japanese War' in D. N. Dilks and C. Andrews (eds), The Missing Dimension, Macmillan, 1984. 'Aston-Gwatkin to Nihon' in A lriye and T. Aruga (eds), Senkanki no Nihon Guiko, University of Tokyo Press, 1984. 'Ito Hirobumi in St. Petersburg, 1901' in Gordon Daniels (ed), Europe Interprets Japan, London: Norbury, 1984. 'British Perceptions of Occupied Japan: A Comment' T. W. Burkman (ed.), The Occupation of Japan: The International Context, MacArthur Foundation, Norfolk, Virginia, 1984. 'British Foreign Secretaries and Japan, 1892-1905' in B. J. C. McKercher and D. J. Moss (eds), Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy, 1895-1939, University of Alberta Press, 1984. 'Some Thoughts on Japanese Expansion' in W. 1. Mommsen and J. Osterhammel (eds), Imperialism and After: Continuities and Discontinuities, Allen & Unwin, 1986. 'Jousting with Authority: The Tokyo Embassy of Sir Francis Lindley, 1931-4, Proceedings of the Japan Society ofLondon, no. 105, (December 1986) pp. 9-19. 'Anglo-Japanese Alliance 1902-23', Perspectives on Japan, vol. 7 (1987) pp. 11-15. The Writings of Ian Nish 185 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Discussion Paper Series: Edited IS 80/05 Indonesian Experience: The Role of Japan and Britain, 1943-1948. IS 80/16 Some Foreign Attitudes to Republican China. IS 81/38 The Russian Problem in East Asia. IS 82/42 Bakumatsu and Meiji: Studies in Japan's Economic and Social History. IS 82/49 The East Asian Crisis, 1945-1951. The Problem of China, Korea and Japan. IS 82/56 Some Aspects of Soviet-Japanese Relations in the 1930s. IS 83n8 The British Commonwealth and the Occupation of Japan. IS 84/90 Aspects of Anglo-Korean Relations Part One. IS 84/94 Aspects of Anglo-Korean Relations Part Two. IS 84/107 The Tripartite Pact of 1940: Japan, Germany and Italy. IS 85/116 1945 in South-East Asia Part One. IS 85/123 1945 in South-East Asia Part Two. IS 85/127 Anglo-Japanese Naval Relations. IS 86/131 Aspects of the Allied Occupation of Japan. IS 86/137 Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1930s and 1940s. IS 86/140 German-Japanese Relations in the 1930s. IS 87/152 Aspects of the Korean War. IS 87/166 South Asia in International Affairs 1947-56. IS 88/177 Borrowing and Adaptation: Studies in Tokugawa, Meiji and Taisho Japan. IS 89/187 Interwar Japan. IS 89/197 Japan and the Second World War. IS 89/204 Educational and Technological Exchange in 19th Century Asia. IS 89/208 The Japanese Constitution of 1889. IS 90/213 The Soviet Union in East Asia. IS 90/214 British Writings on Japanese History. Index Abe Nobuyuki, 41 Japanese policy towards (1927-9), 16-27 Acheson, Dean 117, 120, 144, 145, 152, Japanese policy towards (c. 1935-41), 153-4, 155, 157 37-45,53-4 Alsop, Joseph, 101 Manchurian crisis (1931-3) and, 34-5, Amethyst, HMS, 146, 160 nl3 38 Anglo-Japanese alliance (1902-23), vii, negotiation of commercial treaty with viii, 24, 30, 32 Japan (1896), 1-15 Anglo-Japanese conference (1979), 77-9 participation in Korean war (1950-3), Anti-Comintern pact (1936-7), 31, 38-9 146,155-9 ANZUS treaty (1951),120, 132-4 Roosevelt's policy towards (1941-5), Arita Hachiro, 30, 40, 41 93-107 Armstrong, E.F.E., 78 Stilwell's attitude towards (1942-4), Atcheson, George, 106, 115, 123 n30 99-107 Altlee, Clement, 149, 153, 155, 158 victory of CCP, 143-7, 151-2, 154 Australia, 114, 119, 127, 128-37 Chinese Eastern Railway, 87 Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, 12 Ba Maw, 85-6 Chudo Kan'ei, 38 Baker, Kenneth, 178 Churchill, Winston S., 93, 98, 101, 107, Bank of Japan, 22 157, 158.
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