IAN NISH is Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics. - YOICHI KIBATA is Lecturer and Associate Professor of Foreign Studies at the University of Tokyo. His publications (in Japanese) include The Price of Imperial Rule (1987) and The Twilight of the Empire: British Policy Towards Japan and Malaya 1947-1955.

'...this is an excellent book wherein one can conveniently find summaries of two decades of scholarly production by ten of the foremost specialists in the field.' - Journal of Asian History

• Foreword Preface Notes on the Contributors Anglo-Japanese Relations from the Manchurian Incident to Pearl Harbour; Missed Opportunities?; K.Yoichi The Road to Anglo-Japanese Confrontation, 1931-1941; A.Best Markets and Diplomacy: The Anglo-Japanese Rivalries over Cotton Goods Markets, 1930-1936; I.Osamu Economic Diplomacy in Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1931-1941; J.Sharkey Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1941-1945; I.Kiyoshi From Singapore to Tokyo Bay, 1941-1945; P.Lowe & I.Nish British Prisoners of War of the Japanese, 1941-1945; J.Flower Uneasy Readjustment, 1945-1958; P.Lowe Cooperation, Friction and Search for State Identity: Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1950s; T.Tanaka Anglo-Japanese Relations since the 1960s: Towards a Mutual Understanding - Beyond Friction; K.Toru Distant Friends: Britain and Japan since 1958: The Age of Globalization; C.Braddick Index