1st Edition

New Perspectives on Peacetime Anglo–Japanese Military Relations Old Friends, New Partners

Edited By Thomas French Copyright 2025
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the peacetime military relationship between the United Kingdom and Japan spanning partnerships and interactions from the 1860s to the present day. Reflecting the multiple changes in the power dynamics, relations, and nature of the military links between the U.K. and Japan over time, the chapters in this book analyse instances of peacetime military interaction as both... Read more

Introduction, Thomas French  1. Fading the ‘Dash of Red’ Back in: Reassessing the Significance of the British Garrison of Yokohama, 1864–1875, Thomas French  2. ‘In the Shower of Bullets and Smoke of the Cannon’: British Observations and Trade During the Northern Campaigns of the Boshin War, Steven Ivings  3. Imperial Britain and Japan’s Wars for Civilisation, 1894–1905, Cees Heere  4. Official Hostility and Unofficial Co–operation: Another Aspect of Britain’s Postwar Japanese War Crimes Trials, Kazunori Hashimoto  5. Contributing to Military Government: New Perspectives on the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Occupied Japan, Christopher Aldous  6. Re–armament to Reiwa: Postwar to Post–Cold War Anglo–Japanese Security Engagement, Garren Mulloy  7. Post–Brexit U.K.–Japan Security Co–operation: Towards a Renewed Special Relationship?, Ra Mason  8. The Comeback: Achieving and Sustaining a ‘New Kind of Alliance’, Philip Shetler–Jones  Afterword: A ‘Usable Past’?, Thomas French

 

Biography

Thomas French is Vice Dean of the College of International Relations and Professor of Modern Japanese History, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.