Decade of the Great War

Tosh Minohara, Ph.D. (1998), Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, is Professor of US-Japan Relations at that university. He has published many monographs, compiled volumes, journal articles, and reviews on prewar US-Japan relations and Japanese diplomacy, including [in Japanese] The Japanese Exclusion Act and US-Japan Relations (Iwanamishoten, 2002).Tze-ki Hon, Ph.D. (1992), University of Chicago, is Professor of History at State University of History at Geneseo. He has published monographs, book chapters, and articles on traditional China and 20th century China, including The Yijing and Chinese Politics (SUNY, 2005) and Revolution as Restoration (Brill, 2013).Evan Dawley, Ph.D. (2006), Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of History at Goucher College. He has published articles on Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule. His primary research is on the formation of Taiwanese identity during the 19th and 20th centuries.

• Preface …ixAcknowledgements …xiList of Tables …xivList of Figures …xvList of Volume Editors and Contributors …xviiiJapan and the Wider World in the Decade of the Great War: Introduction …1Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon and Evan DawleySection 1: Diplomacy and Foreign RelationsThe Clash of Pride and Prejudice: The Immigration Issue and US-Japan Relations in the 1910s …21Tosh MinoharaFrom Alliance to Conference: The British Empire, Japan and Pacific Multilateralism, 1911-1921 …45John D. MeehanOut with the New and in with the Old: Uchida Yasuya and the Great War as a Turning Point in Japanese Foreign Affairs …64Rustin B. GatesThe Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War: Unprecedented Opportunities and Harsh Realities …83J. Charles SchenckingSecuring the Maritime Trade: Triangular Frictions between the Merchant Marines of the US, UK and Japan …107Masato KimuraFrom Cooperation to Conflict: Japanese-Russian Relations from the Formation of the Russo-Japanese Entente to the Siberian Intervention …130Isao ChibaThe Wilson Administration and the Mandate Question in the Pacific: Struggle among the Powers over the Disposition of Former German Colonies …149Shusuke TakaharaWhat Peace Meant to Japan: The Changeover at Paris in 1919 …168Tadashi NakataniA New Look at Japan’s Twenty-One Demands: Reconsidering Katō Takaaki’s Motives in 1915 …189Sōchi NaraokaJapan as a Distant Friend: Scandinavian Countries Adjusting to Japan’s Emergence as a Great Power …211Bert EdströmThe Making of a European Friend: Japan’s Recognition of Independent Poland …231Ewa Pałasz-RutkowskaFriends in Opposite Camps or Enemies from Afar: Japanese and Ottoman Turkish Relations in the Great War …257Selçuk EsenbelSection 2: National and Transnational NetworksWomen on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Migration and the Colonization of Taiwan …281Evan DawleyThe Great War and Urban Crisis: Conceptualizing the Industrial Metropolis in Japan and Britain in the 1910s …301Susan C. TownsendGender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko’s Role in Institutionalizing Women’s Education in Japan …323Chika ShinoharaThe Science Room as an Archive: Taishō Japan and WWI …349Hiromi MizunoOf World History and Great Men: A Japanese Village and its Worlds …372Martin DusinberreBuddhism and the Twenty-One Demands: The Politics Behind the International Movement of Japanese Buddhists …394Yoshiko OkamotoRailroad Workers and World War I: Labor Hygiene and the Policies of Japanese National Railways …415Chaisung LimSovereignty and Imperial Hygiene: Japan and the 1919 Cholera Epidemic in East Asia …439Yuehtsen Juliette ChungFighting on Two Fronts: Japan’s Involvement in the Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 …461Sumiko OtsuboChanging Mutual Perceptions of China-Japan Relations in the 1910s in Chinese and Japanese Textbooks …481Caroline RoseGlobal Competition for Power and Wealth: The Chinese Views of the World before and after the Great War …504Tze-ki HonCompiled Bibliography …521Index …532