Introduction; Part I Nineteenth Century and After; Chapter 1 An East India Merchant House in the China Trade in the 1830s; Chapter 2 British Mercantile Cooperation in the India-China Trade from the End of the East India Company’s Trading Monopoly; Chapter 3 Ito Hirobumi’s Overseas Sojourns: Europe’s Growing Admiration for Meiji Statesmanship; Chapter 4 Japan’s Modernization and Anglo-German Rivalry in the 1880s; Chapter 5 Japan and European Brinkmanship, 1895; Chapter 6 The Royal Navy and the Taking of Weihaiwei, 1898?1905; Chapter 7 John McLeavy Brown in Korea, 1893?1905; Chapter 8 Korea: Focus of Russo-Japanese Diplomacy, 1898?1903; Chapter 9 Politics, Trade and Communications in East Asia: Thoughts on Anglo-Russian Relations, 1861?1907; Part II Between the Wars; Chapter 10 A Spy in Manchuria ? Ishimitsu Makiyo; Chapter 11 Dr G. E. Morrison and the Portsmouth Peace Conference, 1905; Chapter 12 Japanese Intelligence, 1894?1922; Chapter 13 The Washington Conference of 1921?2; Chapter 14 Diplomats in Japan; Chapter 15 Sir George Sansom: Diplomat and Historian; Chapter 16 ‘Anglo-Japanese Alienation’ Revisited; Part III The Manchurian Crisis and After; Chapter 17 An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895?1945; Chapter 18 Japan and the First Manchurian Crisis of 1929; Chapter 19 Japanese Military Intelligence on the Eve of the Manchurian Crisis; Chapter 20 Germany, Japan and the Manchurian Crisis: Dr Heinrich Schnee and the Lytton Commission; Chapter 21 Jousting with Authority: The Tokyo Embassy of Sir Francis Lindley, 1931?4; Chapter 22 The Showa Emperor and the End of the Manchurian Crisis; Chapter 23 The Uncertainties of Isolation: Japan Between the Wars; Chapter 24 Conflicting Japanese Loyalties in Manchuria; Chapter 25 Britain’s View of the Japanese Economy in the Early Showa Period; Chapter 26 Japan and Australia Between the Wars; Chapter 27 Yoshida Shigeru and Madame Yoshida at the London Embassy; Part IV The Approach of War and the War Years; Chapter 28 The Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere; Chapter 29 Nationalism in Japan; Chapter 30 Japan and the Outbreak of War in 1941; Chapter 31 Japanese Civilians in War; Chapter 32 Preparing for Peace and Survival: The Japanese Experience, 1943?46;