Japan and Britain at War and Peace

Hugo Dobson is Senior Lecturer in Japan’s International Relations in the School of East Asian Studies and the National Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. Kosuge Nobuko is Professor in International Relations in the Faculty of Law at Yamanashi Gakuin University.

• Introduction Part 1: At War 1. Ebb and Flow: The British at War with the Japanese 2. British Strategy in World War 2 and Reconciliation with its Former Enemies 3. Why did the Japanese Army Abuse Allied Prisoners of War?: The Primary Historical and Structural Causes 4. Neither Pro-British nor Pro-Japanese: How the Burmese Political Elite Reacted under British and Japanese Rule Part 2: In Peace 5. British-Japanese Dilemmas in Southeast Asia after 1945 6. The Tokyo Trial and British-Japanese Reconciliation: The Question of tu Quoque, Political Oblivion and British Prisoners of War 7. Peacemaking and After: Anglo-Japanese Relations and Japan’s Re-entry into International Society 8. Postwar Japanese Intellectuals’ Perspective on Reconciliation between British and Japanese Soldiers over the War in Burma: The Case of Michio Takeyama and Harp of Burma 9. Anglo-Japanese Economic and Military Relations, 1945–60 10. Reconciliation: The Broader Context 11. Reporting the Fiftieth and Sixtieth Anniversaries of the End of World War 2: Less Fear and Loathing in the UK Press towards Japan? 12. Japan-UK Relations in the Global Context. Conclusion