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In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East Asia, shielding Japan as it cemented its regional position, and allowing Britain to concentrate on meeting the German challenge in Europe. Yet it was also a relationship shaped by its contradictions. Empire Ascendant examines how officials and commentators across the British imperial system wrestled with the implications of Japan's unique status as an Asian power in an international order dominated by European colonial empires. On the settlement frontiers of Australasia and North America, white colonial elites formulated their own responses to the growth of Japan's power, charged by the twinned forces of colonial nationalism and racial anxiety, as they designed immigration laws to exclude Japanese migrants, developed autonomous military and naval forces, and pressed Britain to rally behind their vision of a 'white empire'. Yet at the same time, the alliance legitimised Japan's participation in great-power diplomacy, and worked to counteract racist notions of a 'yellow peril'. By the late 1900s, Japan stood at the centre of a series of escalating inter-imperial disputes over foreign policy, defence, migration, and ultimately, over the future of the British imperial system itself. This account weaves together studies of diplomacy, strategy, and imperial relations to pose searching questions about how Japan's entry into the 'family of civilised nations' shaped, and was shaped by, ideologies of race. --

Imperialism --- History --- Great Britain --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- J4813.31 --- J4810.70 --- J3374 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1868-1912) -- imperial expansion

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Commissioned by the Japan Society as the companion volume to British Envoys in Japan, 1959-1972 (2004), this collection of essays on a century of official Japanese representation in the United Kingdom completes the history of bilateral diplomatic relations up to the mid-1960's, concluding with Ambassador Ohno Katsumi’s highly successful six-year assignment in 1964. In all, twelve authors, half of whom are Japanese , contribute to the work. In addition to the nineteen biographies, there are essays on the history of the Japanese Embassy buildings in London, an overview of Japanese envoys in Britain between 1862 and 1872 by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, as well as aspects of embassy life which illuminate some of the factors impacting on the life-style of residents in London in former times, including an entertaining personal memoir by Ayako Ishizaka of ‘A Diplomat’s Daughter in the 1930's’. By way of appendix, the volume concludes with a short history of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) up to the present day.

Diplomats --- Statesmen --- History. --- Great Britain --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- J4813.31 --- J4810.70 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō

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J4813.31 --- J4810.70 --- J2284.70 --- J2284.80 --- J2297.31 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century --- Europe: Genealogy and biography of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England --- Great Britain --- Japan --- Foreign relations --- -Foreign relations --- -J4813.31 --- -J2284.70

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#SML: Joseph Spae --- J4810.70 --- J4813.31 --- S04/0410 --- S09/0505 --- S35/0510 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England --- China: History--General works: Asia --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Great-Britain --- Japan--History: modern (after Meiji 1868) (Russo-Japanese war under 22/0505) --- East Asia --- Great Britain --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Foreign relations --- Au�enpolitik. --- Diplomatic relations. --- Nieuwe tijd. --- Geschichte 1819-1945. --- East Asia. --- Extrême-Orient --- Grande-Bretagne --- Great Britain. --- Gro�britannien. --- Ostasien. --- Relations extérieures --- Orient

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This is the eighth and largest volume in the series Britain andamp; Japan: Biographical Portraits published on behalf of The Japan Society, London. It contains essays from forty contributors relating to fifty-two portraits of personalities who have been influential in political, official and cultural relations between the two countries from the time of the Meiji Restoration to the present day. The volume is thematically structured in eight sections: Politicians and Officials; Lawyers; Artists, Art Collectors and Art Dealers; Potters and Garden Designers; Writers; Music, Sport, Film and Media; Scholars; Other Notable Individuals. In addition, the volume contains two appendices relating to The Times and Japan in the nineteenth century and a bibliography relating to publications from the Satow papers, together with two select bibliographies in English and Japanese which shed light on Britons who lived in Japan and Japanese who lived in Britain.

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