Remarkable insights into the profound Japanese concern 'for defending the cherished Japanese values amid an era of fantastic change', writes Peter Lowe.
Introduction, Peter Lowe, Herman Moeshart; Chapter 1 Von Siebold’s Second Visit to Japan, 1859–62, Herman J. Moeshart; Chapter 2 The Proprietors Assert Themselves, Albert A. Altman; Chapter 3 The Japanese Pure Anarchists and the Theory of Anarchist-Communism, John Crump; Chapter 4 The Strategic Significance of the 1911 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, Valdo Ferretti; Chapter 5 Emperorship as a National Symbol in Taish? Japan (1912–1926), Olavi K. Fält; Chapter 6 The Batavia Conference of 1934 and its Importance to Dutch Japanese Relations in the Decade Before Pearl Harbor, Bob De Graaff; Chapter 7 Admiral Yonai Mitsumasa as Navy Minister (1937–39) – Dove or Hawk?, Gerhard Krebs; Chapter 8 Japanese Occupation Policy in Singapore, 1942–5, Otabe Yuji; Chapter 9 Great Britain and the Japanese Peace Treaty, 1951, Peter Lowe; Chapter 10 Soviet-Japanese Normalisation and the Foreign Policy Ideas of the Hatoyama Group, Tanaka Takahiko;
