Anglo-Japanese relations - Definition and Overview

Chronology of Anglo-Japanese relations (Nichi-Ei kankei 日英関係)

1854. October 14th. The first limited Treaty between Britain and Japan was signed by Admiral Sir James Stirling and representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate (Bakufu).

1859. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed by Lord Elgin for Britain and representatives of the Shogunate for Japan.

1862. September 14th. The Namamugi Incident occurred.

1863. Bombardment of Kagoshima by the Royal Navy. (Anglo-Satsuma War)

1864. Bombardment of Shimonoseki by Britain, France, the Netherlands and the USA.

1872. The Iwakura mission visited Britain as part of a diplomatic and investigative tour of the United States and Europe.

1894. The Treaty of Commerce & Navigation abolishing extraterritoriality in Japan for British subjects with effect from July 17, 1899 was signed in London on July 17th.

1902. The Anglo-Japanese alliance was signed in London on January 30th.

1905. The alliance was renewed and expanded.

1912. The alliance was renewed.

1921. The alliance was discontinued after U.S. pressure and other factors brought it to a close.

Britons in Japan (alphabetical by family name)

• William Adams (Miura Anjin)
• Rutherford Alcock, diplomat
• William George Aston
• William Edward Ayrton, Professor of physics & telegraphy
• Duncan_Gordon_Boyes - winner of the Victoria Cross
• Richard Henry Brunton, Father of Japanese lighthouses
• Basil Hall Chamberlain, Professor
• Edward Bramwell Clarke, Professor
• Hugh Cortazzi, scholar and former ambassador
• Henry Dyer, first principal of the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu Daigakko)
• James Alfred Ewing, Professor
• Thomas Blake Glover, trader
• John Harington Gubbins, diplomat
• Claude Maxwell MacDonald, diplomat
• Algernon Bertram Mitford (Lord Redesdale), diplomat
• James Murdoch
• Laurence Oliphant
• Harry Smith Parkes, diplomat
• Charles Lennox Richardson
• Ernest Mason Satow, diplomat
• Admiral Sir James Stirling
• William Willis, Dr.
• Charles Wirgman, editor of Japan Punch

The chronological list of Heads of the United Kingdom Mission in Japan.

Japanese in Britain (alphabetical by family name, which comes first)

• Aoki Shuzo
• Hayashi Tadasu
• Inagaki Manjiro
• Ishiguro Kazuo - British novelist of Japanese origin, usually known as Kazuo Ishiguro
• Iwakura Tomomi - see Iwakura mission especially
• Kikuchi Dairoku
• Mori Arinori
• Natsume Soseki
• Oku Katsuhiko - Oxford University rugby player, diplomat in Japanese embassy in London who died in Iraq, 2003. Posthumously promoted to ambassador. See also the Oku-Inoue fund (http://www.oku-inoue-fund.com/eng/) for the children of Iraq.
• Suematsu Kencho
• Tanaka Ginnosuke
• Togo Heihachiro

See also

• o-yatoi gaikokujin - foreign employees in Meiji era Japan

External Links

• A Bibliography of Anglo-Japanese relations (http://www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/jbib/For2-3.html) - at Cambridge University
• The Asiatic Society of Japan (http://www.asjapan.org/main.htm) - in Tokyo
• The British Association for Japanese Studies (http://www.bajs.org.uk/)
• The British Consulate (http://www.uknow.or.jp/be_e/about_us/consulate/) - in Nagoya
• The British Consulate-General (http://www.uknow.or.jp/be_e/about_us/general/) - in Osaka
• The British Council in Japan (http://www.britishcouncil.org/japan.htm) - the cultural arm of the British government overseas
• The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (http://www.bccjapan.com/)
• The British Embassy (http://www.uknow.or.jp/be_e/about_us/index.htm) - in Tokyo
• The British Trade Promotion Office (http://www.uknow.or.jp/be_e/about_us/trade/) in Fukuoka
• The Cambridge & Oxford Society (http://www.camford.org/) - founded in Tokyo in 1905
• The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese foundation (http://www.daiwa-foundation.org.uk/) - in London and Tokyo
• The Embassy of Japan (http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/) - in London
• The Great Britain Sasakawa foundation (http://www.gbsf.org.uk/) - in London and Tokyo
• The Japan Society (http://www.japansociety.org.uk/) - founded in London in 1891
• The Japan-British Society (http://www.japanbritishsociety.or.jp/index_e.html) - founded in Japan in 1908

Reference books

• Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume V (http://www.globaloriental.co.uk/book.asp?Title_ID=37), edited by Hugh Cortazzi, Global Oriental 2004, ISBN 1901903486

• British Envoys in Japan 1859-1972 (http://www.globaloriental.co.uk/book.asp?Title_ID=7), edited and compiled by Hugh Cortazzi, Global Oriental 2004, ISBN 1901903516

• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan (http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/hatenkou.html), by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, (Lulu Press (http://www.lulu.com/content/71869), September 2004, ISBN 1411612566).