This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ian Nish on international relations affecting Japan, Russia, China and Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Developed in close collaboration with Ian Nish, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Anglo-Japanese Alliance.

Nish's writings on international relations affecting Japan, Russia, China and Korea in the 19th and 20th centuries are collected together in one volume.

Comprehensive coverage of the diplomatic history in Japan of H.M. Representatives and the events that marked their period of office.