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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...
6 June 2019
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...
28 July 2016
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...
1 July 2011
Reiko Oyama and Tomoki Takeda
Discusses Japan’s political immobilism caused by lack of strong ministerial leadership and failure of reform initiatives. Attributes it to the power of factions within political parties which reforms have failed to break...Read more...
1 June 2010
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...
December 2008
Makoto Kasuya
Issues of bonds increased in inter-war Japan, the main investors in bonds being banks because demand for loans declined in this period. Banks that were more tolerant of risks (that is, whose capital ratio was higher) mad...Read more...
August 2007
Ben-Ami Shillony and Antony Best
Shillony: Paper examines how Japan’s imperial dynasty dependent on the male line of succession has lasted so long and analyses how it will overcome its present difficulties. An Advisory Panel was created to recommend fut...Read more...
November 2006
Stewart Lone and Christopher Madeley
Lone: The 1920s saw the emergence in Kansai of modern industrial urban living with the development of the underground, air services; wireless telephones, super express trains etc. Automobiles dominated major streets from...Read more...
July 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...
May 2005
Rana Mitter and Koji Nakakita
Mitter: China emerged from the Korean War as a more confident actor in the international order. The paper considers three wider contexts within which China's experience of the Korean War should be considered: as part of ...Read more...
June 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...
April 2004
Gordon Daniels and James Hoare
Hoare: Both North and South Korea claim victory in the Korean War. Yet neither makes much of the ending of the war in July 1953, and both have had problems coming to terms with the reality of the war. The reality is that...Read more...
February 2004
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...
January 2003
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...
April 2002
Roger Buckley, Valdo Ferretti, Neville Meaney and Ann Trotter
Buckley describes how Britain took the independent step of recognizing the People's Republic of China, a step which led to problems about China being invited to the San Francisco conference. After China's entry into the ...Read more...
September 2001
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Roger Dingman, Peter Lowe and Kenji Tozawa
Dingman argues that the San Francisco settlement signaled the emergence of a new Pacific maritime order in which the United States Navy is the dominant naval force relying on significant bases in Japan. In particular, he...Read more...
Mutsumi Hirano, Kenji Tozawa and John West
(Weste paper): deals with Japan's return to trading with the countries of Southeast Asia in the early 1950s and the responses of the United States and British governments. (Hirano paper): provides an overall picture of t...Read more...
November 2000
Anthony Farrington and Derek Massarella
(Massarella paper): The William Adams story has been told many times, but not completely. This paper corrects matters of fact and revises matters of interpretation. It adds new information about Adams the man and examine...Read more...
July 2000
Neville Meaney
Professor Meaney visited the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines during the winter months of 1999 and conducted research on the position of Japan in the formulation of Australia...Read more...
March 2000
Nigel Brailey, Sir Hugh Cortazzi, James Hoare and Ayako Hotta-Lister
A joint symposium between the Japan Society and the London School of Economics and Political Science was held in the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines on 9 July 1999 to mark t...Read more...
November 1999
Sebastian Swann
During a visit from Washington, Dr Sebastian Swann addressed an International/Japanese Studies symposium on 28 April 1999 under the title Reflections on the Allied Occupation of Japan. Dr Swann who has recently been invo...Read more...
October 1999
Stewart Lone and Philip Towle
On 6 February 1998 a symposium was held in STICERD on Aspects of the Russo-Japanese War at which two papers were presented: 'The Japanese Military during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05: A Reconsideration of Command Poli...Read more...
July 1998
John Breen, Oliver Checkland, Andrew Cobbing and Akiko Ohta
In London, at the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (LSE), a symposium was held on 6 December 1997 - the anniversary of the day when the members of Iwakura's delegation were r...Read more...
March 1998
Ayumu Yasutomi
Dr Yasutomi who had earlier contributed an essay on Japan's financial activities in Manchuria down to 1931 to the International Studies series, completed with this essay the topics he studied during his two years as Rese...Read more...
January 1998
Shizuya Nishimura and Ayumu Yasutomi
Professor Nishimura examines the role of British banks in promoting Chinese trade and, more broadly, the relationship between foreign banks and traditional Chinese banking institutions in modernizing the local economy. D...Read more...
June 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...
February 1997
Kiyoshi Aizawa and Tadashi Kuramatsu
At a symposium held at the Suntory Centre on 4 July 1996 Professor Aizawa gave a paper on 'The Tripartite Pact and the Japanese Navy's Strategy' and Mr Kuramatsu read his paper on 'Japan and the Geneva Naval Conference o...Read more...
July 1996
John Y Wong and Michael B Yahuda
The scheduled return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997 has generated considerable debate regarding its future, and its implications for the P.R.C.'s relationship with other territories claimed as part of China. At a s...Read more...
April 1996
Chris Aldous and Richard B Finn
1995 was the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Allied Occupation of Japan which lasted until 1952 and was a significant period in Japan's history. In order to make an assessment of the occupation a symposium under...Read more...
1996
Hiroshi Nakanishi and Naoko Shimazu
At a symposium held at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines on 24 March 1995, Professor Nakanishi gave a paper on 'The Impact of the Great War on the Anglo-Japanese Alliance', and...Read more...
1995
Lane Earns
Professor Lane Earns who was on a lecture-tour of Britain was invited to address a symposium on 27 January 1995 concerning the end of World War II in Japan. This resulted in a lively discussion in which the main commenta...Read more...
Shigeru Akita, edited by Janet Hunter and Susan C. Townsend
A Suntory-Toyota Symposium was held at the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines on Friday, 9 December 1994. There were two speakers at the symposium: Professor Shigeru Akita of Osaka University of F...Read more...
J Berryman, K Neilson and Ian Nish
On 31 July 1894 the Tsungli Yamen gave notice of its intention to break off relations with Japan over events in Korea. On the following day an Imperial Edict was issued in Tokyo announcing the outbreak of war between Jap...Read more...
1994
Wenzhao Tao
A Suntory-Toyota Symposium was held at the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines on 10 December 1993 under the chairmanship of Dr Antony Best. The discussion focussed on 'Aspects of Interwar China' a...Read more...
Lincoln Li, Stewart Lone and Kimitada Miwa
This paper covers a number of symposia held in the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines during the academic year 1992-3. The papers assembled here are presented in the order in which ...Read more...
1993
Kazuo Chiba and Peter Lowe
Dr Lowe's paper was presented at a symposium organized under the auspices of the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines on 15 May 1992 on the theme of the background to the San Francisc...Read more...
Alice Lam
May 1985 the Japanese government passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (hereafter referred to as EEO Law) which took effect from April 1986. The enactment of the EEO Law has aroused much controversy and debate unpr...Read more...
1992
Susie Harries, edited by Ian Nish and L. van Poelgeest
This pamphlet contains two papers given at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre, the first at the symposium held on 5 July 1991 (other papers were issued in IS/91/227), and the second at the symposium on 22 May 1990 (...Read more...
1991
Nigel Brailey, Patrick Davis, Junzo Iida and Ian Nish
At a gathering of Southeast Asian experts at the Suntory-Toyota Centre on 31 May 1991 three papers were given on aspects of Thai-Japanese and Anglo-Thai relations. Dr Brailey's paper ranged widely over the field from 186...Read more...
W G Beasley, Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Bruce Kirkpatrick, T B Millar and edited by Ian Nish
Preface: The Suntory-Toyota International Centre held an all-day symposium on 'The British Commonwealth and its Contribution to the Occupation of Japan, 1945-8' on 5 July 1991. The three speakers covered the early years ...Read more...
July 1991
Farooq Bajwa, Yoichi Kibata, edited by Ian Nish and Ann Trotter
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Akira Amakawa, Makoto Iokibe, Walter Miller and edited by Ian Nish
Antony Best, Ian Nish, edited by Ian Nish, L. van Poelgeest and Takahiko Tanaka
1990
Jonathan Haslam, edited by Ian Nish, Jon Pardoe and Zhang Yongjin
Stephen S. Large, Ian Nish and Chuhei Sugiyama
1989
Mark Tully
Oliver Checkland, E C.T. Chew, edited by Ian Nish and Chuhei Sugiyama
Toshiko Marks, edited by Ian Nish and R. John Pritchard
Janet Hunter, James W. Morley, Takafusa Nakamura and edited by Ian Nish
Naoki Hiraishi and Ian Nish
1988
Premen Addy, edited by Ian Nish, Anita Inder Singh and Takahiko Tanaka
1987
W G Beasley, edited by Janet Hunter, M. Miyake and John Y Wong
Akira Iriye, Olof Lidin, Peter Lowe and Ian Nish
Penelope Francks, edited by Janet Hunter, Kaoru Sugihara and Hiroshi Watanabe
1986
Nobutoshi Hagihara, Kiyoshi Ikeda, Ian Nish, edited by Ian Nish and Erich Pauer
A Adamthwaite, Yoichi Kibata and edited by Ian Nish
H Baerwald, Roger Buckley, edited by Ian Nish and Ann Trotter
John Chapman, Ian Gow, Kiyoshi Ikeda, edited by Ian Nish and Chit-Chung Ong
1985
Ian Nish and Masaya Shiraishi
Louis Allen, edited by Ian Nish, T. Smitabhindu and Judith Stowe
Daeyeol Ku, Tony Michell and Shinya Sugiyama
1984
Roger Bullen, James Hoare and Ian Nish
Lord Bancroft
Ernest Bramsted, John Chapman, Jost Dulffer and edited by Ian Nish
G Bolton, Gordon Daniels, G Goodman, Hamish Ion, Ian Nish and Eiji Takemae
1983
B Bridges, John Chapman, Jonathan Haslam, Akira Iriye, edited by Ian Nish and Haruhiko Nishi
1982
Roger Dingman, Chihiro Hosoya, edited by Ian Nish and Ian Nish
Oliver Checkland, Gordon Daniels, Janet Hunter, J-P Lehmann, edited by Ian Nish and Shinya Sugiyama
Peter Lowe, edited by Ian Nish, Naotake Nobuhara and David Steeds
1981
Dudley Cheke, Taichiro Mitani, edited by Ian Nish, David Steeds and Ann Trotter
1980
Roger Buckley, Gordon Daniels and Sadao Oba