Books by Ian Nish

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A study of the Manchurian and Shanghai crises, the first serious confrontation between Japan and the world community. The book focuses on how the League of Nations attempted to cope with the emergency; and on the clash of attitudes in Japanese politics.

Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. This volume presents an overview of the mission.