Foreign Policies of the Great Powers
FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE GREAT POWERS
VOLUME I
The Reluctant Imperialists I: British Foreign Policy 1878-1902
C. J. Lowe
VOLUME II
The Reluctant Imperialists II: British Foreign Policy 1878-1902, The Documents
C. J. Lowe
VOLUME III
The Mirage of Power I: British Foreign Policy 1902-14
C. J. Lowe and M. L. Dockrill
VOLUME IV
The Mirage of Power II: British Foreign Policy 1914-22
C. J. Lowe and M. L. Dockrill
VOLUME V
The Mirage of Power III: 1902-22, The Documents
C. J. Lowe and M. L. Dockrill
VOLUME VI
From Sadowa to Sarajevo: The Foreign Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1866-1914
F. R. Bridge
VOLUME VII
The Foreign Policy of France from 1914 to 1945
J. Nr
VOLUME VIII
Italian Foreign Policy 1870-1940
C. J. Lowe and F. Marzari
VOLUME IX
German Foreign Policy 1871-1914
Imanuel Geiss
VOLUME X
From Nationalism to Internationalism: US Foreign Policy to 1914
Akira Iriye
VOLUME XI
Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869-1942: Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka
Ian Nish
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Publishers Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original book may be apparent.
Like all authors in this series, I owe a great personal debt to the late Professor Cedric Lowe, who was the general editor of this series. Professor Lowe died tragically after a motor accident at Edmonton, Alberta, on 26 April 1975. This volume in the series endeavours to interpret for a non-Japanese readership Japans foreign policy from the Meiji restoration until the Greater East Asian war through the careers and thinking of those who guided her policy-making.
In the translations at the end, I have tried to select documents which illustrate the quality of Japans thinking on foreign affairs. In the small selection which space allows, I have tried to uncover the motives and ideas of the Japanese leaders and the way that they communicated them to one another. I have in general avoided documents which are already available in English translation or in previous documentary collections. I have been greatly helped by Mrs Toshiko Marks who checked my translations for me though she is in no way responsible for the errors and faulty nuances which they may still contain since communication between the English and Japanese languages can never be a precise or unambiguous exercise.
In preparing this manuscript for treatment as one of the early Routledge typewritten volumes, I am grateful for the considerate attention of Miss Eileen Wood and other members of FKP staff. For other services in connection with writing and re-writing the manuscript, I would like to thank Mrs M. Bradgate and Mrs I. Capsey.
Date | Foreign Minister | Cabinet |
1869 | (Lord) Sawa |
1871 July | Ivrakura Tomomi |
1871 November | Soejima Taneomi |
1873 | Terashima Munenori |
1879 | Inoue Kaoru |
1888 | Okuma Shigenobu | From 1885 It |
1889 | Aoki Shz | Yamagata |
1891 | Enomoto Buyo | Matsukata |
1892 | Mutsu Munemitsu | It |
1896 | Okuma Shigenobu | Matsukata |
1897 | Nishi Tokujir | It |
1898 June | Okuma Shigenobu | Okuma |
1898 November | Acki Shz | Yamagata |
1900 | Kat Takaaki | It |
1901 | Komura Jtar | Katsura |
1906 January | Kat Takaaki | Saionji |
1906 May | Hayashi Tadasu | Saionji |
1908 | Komura Jtar | Katsura |
1911 | Uchida Yasuya | Saionji |
1913 January | Kat Takaaki | Katsura |
1913 February | Makino Shinken | Yamamoto |
1914 April | Kat Takaaki | Okuma |
1915 | Ishii Kikujir | Okuma |
1916 | Motono Ichir | Terauchi |
1918 April | Got Shimpei | Terauchi |
1918 September | Uchida Yasuya | Hara |
1923 | Ijin Hikokichi | Yamamoto |
1924 January | Matsui Keishir | Kiyoura |
1924 June | Shidehara Kijr | Kat Takaaki |
1927 | Tanaka Giichi | Tanaka |
1929 | Shidehara Kijr | Hamaguchi |
1932 January | Yoshizawa Kenkichi | Inukai |
1932 July | Uchida Yasuya | Sait |
1933 | Hirota Kki |