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The alliance's provisions for mutual defence required Japan to enter the First World War on the British side. The Treaty made possible the Japanese seizure of German possessions in the Pacific north of the equator during the War. Japan attacked the German base at Qingdao in 1914 and forced the Germans to surrender (see Siege of Tsingtao).
1577. Richard Wylles writes about the people, customs and manners of Giapan in the History of Travel published in London. Mercator based map of Japan (1570) 1580. Richard Hakluyt advises the first English merchants to find a new trade route via the Northwest passage to trade wool for silver with Japan (sending two Barque ships, the George piloted by Arthur Pet and William by Charles Jackman ...
Great Britain and the Opening of Japan, 1834–1858. Japan Library paperback. ISBN 978-1-873410-43-1. Beasley, W. G. (1950). The Language Problem in the Anglo-Japanese Negotiations of 1854. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 13 (3), 746–758.Retrieved from : Beasley, William G (1972).
University Alliance; Regional research consortia: Eastern ARC (Eastern Academic Research Consortium – research consortium in eastern England) GW4 (research consortium in southwest England and Wales) Midlands Innovation (research consortium in the English Midlands) N8 Research Partnership (research consortium in northern England)
The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan's Early Search for the Essence of the West. Curzon Press, 2000. ISBN 1-873410-97-2; Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton , (Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1-4116-1256-6). Gardiner, Michael.
Educators, lawmakers ponder: Have the resources gone where they were supposed to go thus far?
Emanuel said other Asia-Pacific countries with worries about China were reassured by the U.S.-Japan alliance. Japan hosts more U.S. troops — about 54,000 — than any other country in the world ...
The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (日英通商航海条約, Nichi-Ei Tsūshō Kōkai Jōyaku) signed by Britain and Japan, on 16 July 1894, was a breakthrough agreement; it heralded the end of the unequal treaties and the system of extraterritoriality in Japan.