New Perspectives on Peacetime Anglo–Japanese Military Relations

Thomas French is Vice Dean of the College of International Relations and Professor of Modern Japanese History, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

• Introduction 1. Fading the ‘Dash of Red’ Back in: Reassessing the Significance of the British Garrison of Yokohama, 1864–1875 2. ‘In the Shower of Bullets and Smoke of the Cannon’: British Observations and Trade During the Northern Campaigns of the Boshin War 3. Imperial Britain and Japan’s Wars for Civilisation, 1894–1905 4. Official Hostility and Unofficial Co–operation — Another Aspect of Britain’s Postwar Japanese War Crimes Trials 5. Contributing to Military Government: New Perspectives on the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Occupied Japan 6. Re–armament to Reiwa: Postwar to Post–Cold War Anglo–Japanese Security Engagement 7. Post–Brexit U.K.–Japan Security Co–operation: Towards a Renewed Special Relationship? 8. The Comeback: Achieving and Sustaining a ‘New Kind of Alliance’ Afterword: A ‘Usable Past’?