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Ian Nish

Ian Nish

Former Associate and former Professor Emeritus of International History

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 6687
Room:
32L 3.27 A
Links:
SOAS Japan Centre

Biography

Ian Nish (1926-2022) was Emeritus Professor of International History at LSE and long-time research associate in STICERD's Japanese Studies programme.

Ian Nish's current research interests are:

  • Japanese foreign policy
  • Japanese politics
  • Russia's East Asian policy
  • Anglo-Japanese relations

Latest

International Studies Papers
Japan's response to Britain's wartime naval appeals, 1917-19

06 June 2019

Ian Nish

This pamphlet continues our series of publications devoted to conditions in Japan in the period of the Taisho Emperor who reigned from 1912 to 1926. Taisho Studies have tended to be neglected because it was a comparative... Read more...
International Studies Papers
Taisho Studies

28 July 2016

Haruna Asonuma, Ayako Hotta-Lister, Ian Nish and Naraoka Sochi

Professor Naraoka, Associate Professor of Japanese Political and Diplomatic Historty, University of Kyoto, has been visiting Research Fellow in the International History department, LSE. In his researches into the diari... Read more...
International Studies Papers
MEIJI JAPAN’S ASCENT TOWARDS WORLD POWER

01 July 2011

Ian Nish

A major Japan-British Exhibition was held at the White City, Hammersmith, London, for six months in 1910. Its centenary was celebrated at a conference in the Suntory-Toyota Centre in association with the Japan Foundation... Read more...
International Studies Papers
On the periphery of the Russo-Japanese war, Part 111

01 December 2008

Ian Nish and Mizuyo Oyama

This discussion paper is a continuation of the two previous pamphlets which appeared under the title, ‘On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese war’. A special symposium on this topic was held in the Morishima Room on 8 Ma... Read more...
International Studies Papers
On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese War Part II

01 May 2005

David Steeds and Ian Nish

Steeds: David Davies, a young member of a prominent Welsh commercial/industrial family, spent the period between October 1904 and January 1905 in Japan, Korea and North China. His diary of the journey presents interestin... Read more...
International Studies Papers
On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese War - Part I

01 April 2004

John Chapman and Ian Nish

Chapman: Major defects in British naval intelligence were the absence of an effective central department, an inferior network of naval attachés in major capitals prior to 1902 and the lack of secure direct cable communic... Read more...
International Studies Papers
Studies in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1923)

01 January 2003

Gordon Daniels, Janet Hunter, Ian Nish and David Steeds

Daniels examined British media views of Japan by sampling local and national dailies, with emphasis on The Times and The Economist and magazines like Punch, The Graphic and The Illustrated London News. While the metropol... Read more...
International Studies Papers
Anglo-Japanese Alliance

01 April 2002

Ayako Hotta-Lister, Ian Nish and David Steeds

Nish dealt with the diplomacy of Britain and Japan in the five months before the conclusion of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, arguing that it was not a 'natural alliance' but that there were pockets of opposition to it whi... Read more...
STICERD International and Japanese Studies
A symposium will be held in association with the Japan Society to commemorate the centenary of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.<p /> The event is free and open to all interested in the topic. However, <u>advanced booking is essential</u>.<br />Please contact Johanna Ruff, <a href='mailto:j.ruff@lse.ac.uk'>j.ruff@lse.ac.uk</a> to book.

22 February 2002

Ian Nish (STICERD)

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International Studies Papers
Japan in the 1950s

01 February 1997

Valdo Ferretti, Peter Lowe and Ian Nish

As Japan entered the 1950s, she was still under allied (mainly, but not exclusively, American) military occupation. The occupation had gone relatively well and the allies were ready to negotiate an early peace treaty. Th... Read more...
Japanese Studies Programme Papers
The Social History of Occupied Japan: 1: Some Sources and Problems, 2: British Writings on Japanese History

01 July 1990

Gordon Daniels, Janet Hunter and Ian Nish

Preface: Dr Gordon Daniels, Reader in History at the University of Sheffield, presented his paper on the Social History of Occupied Japan at a one-day workshop on the Teaching of Japanese Economic and Social History, hel... Read more...

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