Foreword; Y.Hirama Preface PART 1 : FROM PUPILS TO PARTNERS Days of Seclusion; A.H.Ion Anglo-Japanese Military Relations, 1800-1900; M.Asakawa The Royal Navy and Japan, 1900-1920: strategic re-evaluation of the IJN; I.T.M.Gow The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the First World War I; Y.Hirama Britain, Japan and 'The Higher Realms of Intelligence', 1900-1917; J.W.M.Chapman PART 2: FROM ALLIES TO ANTAGONISTS Double-Edged Estimates: Japan in the Eyes of the British Army and the Royal Air Force; J.Ferris The Royal Navy and Japan, 1921-1941; I.T.M.Gow Britain and Japan and Inter-war Naval Limitation 1921-1936; T.Kuramatsu The Path Towards an 'Anti-British' Strategy by the Japanese Navy between the Wars; Y.Aizawa Britain, Japan and the 'Higher Realms of Intelligence', 1918-1945; J.W.M.Chapman PART 3: FROM FOES TO FRIENDS The Imperial Army turns South: the IJA's preparation for War Against Britain 1940-41; H.Tohmatsu Ground of Our Choosing: The Anglo-Japanese War in Asia, 1941-45; J.Ferris The Anglo-Japanese War and Japan's plan to 'liberate' Asia 1941-1945; S.Hatano The Royal Navy's Evaluation of the Strategy and Technology of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945; P.Charrier British Policymakers and the Prisoner of War Issue: Perceptions and Responses; S.J.Flower Changes in Perception: British Civil and Military Perspectives on War Crimes Trials and their Legal Context, 1942-1956; R.J.Pritchard the Japanese Military's Attitude toward International Law and the Treatment of Prisoners of War; Y.Kita The British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan and Its Association with the Japanese; T.Chida The Anglo-Japanese Relationship after World War II; Y.Imaizumi