IAN NISH is Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. His research has concentrated on the field of Japanese foreign policy, especially in the period of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-23) and the twentieth century generally. He has served as President of the British Association for Japanese Studies and from 1985-1988 as President of the European Association for Japanese Studies. He is the author of several books including The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1895-97, The Story of Japan , and Japan's Struggle with Internationalism, 1931-3. YOICHI KIBATA is Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of The Price of Imperial Rule and The Twilight of the Empire: British Policy Towards Japan and Malaya, 1947-1955.

'This first clear and highly readable volume comprises ten parallel essays by Japanese and British scholars which chart the changing course of relations over the past four hundred years: from the early years from 1600 (Massarella and Kato Eiichi), through Britian's role in the opening of Japan in the 1860s and the years of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (Kato Yuzo, Beasley, Hoare and Inouye Yuichi), to the pragmatic cooperation which continued, especially in China, until 1930 (Murashima Shgeru, Steeds, Goto-Shibata Harumi and Nish).' - The Japan Society

• Foreword Preface List of Contributors Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-1858; D.Massarella Aspects of Early Anglo-Japanese Relations; K.Eiichi, translator S.Hisayo The Opening of Japan and the Meiji Restoration, 1837-1872; K.Yozo , translator M.Yasuhiro The Conflict of Co-operation: British Naval Surveying in Japanese Waters, 1845-1899; W.G.Beasley The Era of the Unequal Treaties, 1858-1899; J.Hoare From Unequal Treaty to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1867-1902; I.Yuichi The Opening of the Twentieth Century and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1895-1923; M.Shigeru Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1902-1923: A Marriage of Convenience; D.Steeds Anglo-Japanese Co-operation in China in the 1920s; G.S.Harumi Echoes of Alliance, 1920-1930; I.Nish Index