Wartime Japanese Planning: A Note on Akira Iriye

Abstract

In July 1979, the Imperial War Museum hosted an Anglo—Japanese conference, sponsored by the British Academy and the British National Committee for the History of the Second World War. The title ‘on the history of the Second World War’ — was somewhat deceptive, since most of the papers were concerned with diplomatic relations between Britain and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, postwar planning and postwar relations. Professor Nish edited the English version of the papers, which appeared under the title Anglo-Japanese Alienation 1919–1952,’ while the Japanese version, edited by Professor Hosoya Chihiro, was entitled simply Nichi-Ei Kankei-shi (The history of Anglo—Japanese relations) 1917–1949.²