ABSTRACT

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This book brings together many leading experts who examine the different aspects of the Alliance in its different stages before, during and after the First World War, who explore the reasons for its success and for its end, and who reach a number of interesting and innovative conclusions on the agreement's ultimate importance.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

Origins of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

In the shadow of the Dreibund

chapter 2|22 pages

Towards a naval alliance

Some naval antecedents to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1854–1902

chapter 4|18 pages

Military co-operation under the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1905

The beginnings of military co-operation

chapter 6|23 pages

Japan debates the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

The second revision of 1911

chapter 7|18 pages

Navalism, naval expansion and war

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the Japanese Navy

chapter 10|23 pages

Bankers, investors and risk

British capital and Japan during the years of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

chapter 15|18 pages

Armaments and allies

The Anglo-Japanese strategic relationship, 1911–1921