Old Friends, New Partners: a History of Anglo Japanese Military Relations: 1864-2017

• Project/Area Number: 18K12734
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: French Thomas 立命館大学, 国際関係学部, 准教授 (50632824)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: Anglo-Japanese Relations / Military exchanges / Japanese military / British military / Self Defense Forces / Alliances / Diplomacy / Modern history / Meiji Restoration / Bakumatsu / Imperial history / British history / British Empire / 横浜の英駐屯軍 / Military Exchanges / Meiji era / Bakumatsu era / Japanese History / Militaries / Japan and the West / UK-Japan Relations / Modern Japanese History / Military Aid / British Military / Japanese Military

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project produced a number of high-quality international academic conference panels, presentations, conference papers, and an edited book (forthcoming). It helped build a network of scholars both in Japan and overseas who continue to co-operate in research on this topic and other related projects.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

The project helped raise important questions and deepened knowledge about UK-Japan peacetime military links from a historical and contemporary perspective. Participants in the project were able to facilitate exchanges between Japanese and British scholars and policy makers working on this topic.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Winchester/University of East Anglia/University of Nottingham(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] European Union (EURAXESS)(その他の国・地域)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Council on Geostrategy(ドイツ)
• [Journal Article] Rose Tinted and Blood Flecked? An Examination of the Private and Public Accounts of the British Garrison of Yokohama (1864-1875) (2022)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Journal Title: ICAS 12 Conference Proceedings Volume: 12
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] The UK-Japan Security Partnership Century: Alliance, Animosity, Amity, and Strategic Partnership (2022)
  • Author(s): Garren Mulloy
  • Journal Title: ICAS 12 Conference Proceedings Volume: 12
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] British Trade at Hakodate during the Boshin War (2022)
  • Author(s): Steven Ivings
  • Journal Title: ICAS 12 Conference Proceedings Volume: 12
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] アカデミック・ライティング・チュートリアル ― 立命館大学国際関係学部の取り組み ― Academic Writing Tutorials -The Case of the College of the International Relations, Ritsumeikan University (2021)
  • Author(s): T French, KUNSCHAK Claudia, O'MOCHAIN Robert, RAJKAI Zsombor Tibor, 新野 豊
  • Journal Title: RITSUMEIKAN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 立命館高等教育研究 Volume: 21 Pages: 197-216
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Review: Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation by Edgar A. Porter and Ran Ying Porter (2018)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Journal Title: Canadian Journal of History Volume: 53/1 Issue: 1 Pages: 157-158
  • DOI: 10.3138/cjh.ach.53.1.rev31
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Managing Japan’s First Joint Undergraduate Degree Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Ritsumeikan University - American University Partnership (2022)
  • Author(s): T French, Scott Koga-Browes
  • Organizer: Global Japan and Academia During Covid-19, University of Hyogo
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Rose Tinted and Blood Flecked? An Examination of the Private and Public Views of Japan of the British Garrison of Yokohama,1864-1875 (2021)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: International Convention of Asia Scholars 12, The Lion and the Sun: Peacetime Anglo-Japanese Military Relations from Bakumatsu to Brexit
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Britain and the Boshin War: British Observations and Trade during the Northern Campaigns (2021)
  • Author(s): Steven Ivings
  • Organizer: International Convention of Asia Scholars 12, The Lion and the Sun: Peacetime Anglo-Japanese Military Relations from Bakumatsu to Brexit
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The UK-Japan Security Partnership Century (2021)
  • Author(s): Garren Mulloy
  • Organizer: International Convention of Asia Scholars 12, The Lion and the Sun: Peacetime Anglo-Japanese Military Relations from Bakumatsu to Brexit
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Post 2011 UK-Japan security and defence cooperation activities in context (2021)
  • Author(s): Philip Shetler-Jones
  • Organizer: International Convention of Asia Scholars 12, The Lion and the Sun: Peacetime Anglo-Japanese Military Relations from Bakumatsu to Brexit
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The View from the Passenger’s Seat: Jeeps, The Occupation, and Automotive Culture in Postwar Japan (2021)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Cultures of Occupation: New Paradigms, Models and Comparisons, University of Nottingham
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The First 'Occupation' of Japan? - The Anglo-French Garrison of Yokohama 1863 - 1875 (2021)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: European Union (EURAXESS Me) 18th lap
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Redcoats in Japan; An Examination of First Person Accounts from the British Garrison of Yokohama 1863-1875 (2021)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: University of Winchester, Modern History Research Centre
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] British Troops in Japan: 1864 - 1875 Highlighting ‘The Thin Red Line’ Around Yokohama 日本駐屯地における英国軍: 1864 - 1875年 横浜周辺の「シン・レッド・ライン」をハイライト (2021)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Modern Japanese History Workshop, Tokyo University / Waseda University
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] ‘Tommy Atkins’ in Japan, Examining the British Garrison of Yokohama (1864-1875) through First Person Accounts 日本におけるトミー・アトキンス氏：手記を通して横浜英駐屯兵（1864-1875）を考察 (2021)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Kyoto Lectures, Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO), Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS), and Kyoto University
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] ‘Silent Sentries’: Writing the British Garrison of Yokohama (1864-1875) back into the History of the Bakumatsu and Early Meiji Eras (2020)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: The Lion & the Sun: New Perspectives on Anglo-Japanese Military Relations Conference, Centre for Japanese Studies Seminar (University of East Anglia)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Pacific Encounters; Race, Ritual and Anglo-Japanese Naval Diplomacy (2020)
  • Author(s): Cees Heere
  • Organizer: The Lion & the Sun: New Perspectives on Anglo-Japanese Military Relations Conference, Centre for Japanese Studies Seminar (University of East Anglia)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Military Maneuvers as Public Spectacle in Imperial Japan and the UK (2020)
  • Author(s): Oleg Benesch
  • Organizer: The Lion & the Sun: New Perspectives on Anglo-Japanese Military Relations Conference, Centre for Japanese Studies Seminar (University of East Anglia)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Occupation of Japan (c.1945-1952) and The Korean War (c.1950-1953) (2020)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Seminar “Japan’s First Modern Century, 1868-1968”
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 'National Liberation' in the Service of 'Hegemonism', the Japanese Communist Party’s ‘Military Policy’ of 1950-1956 (2019)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Osaka University Asia-Pacific Studies Meeting Workshop
  • Invited
• [Presentation] An Unequal Structure? “Layering” the US - Japan Relationship (2019)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Joint East Asian Studies Conference 2019
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Sun also Rises: Inequalities Favouring the Japanese State in the US-Japan Security Relationship (2018)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: IIRAS International Symposium: Inequality in Security Relations: Japan, Okinawa, and Taiwan in the Japan-US Security Treaty System
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Red Spectre: Paradoxes within the Japanese Communist Party’s ‘Military Policy’ of 1950-1956 (2018)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: International Studies Seminar at Osaka University
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The Road Less Travelled: The Influence of GHQ’s Jeeps upon the Postwar Japanese Automotive Industry (2018)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: British Association of Japanese Studies Conference 2018
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Discussant: Reception and Transformation of Science and Technology: Quality Control of Public Health in Occupied Japan (1945-1952) (2018)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Asia-Pacific Studies Seminar at Osaka University
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Discussant: Whose Bristol Bay Incident? A U.S.-Japan Fishery Dispute in Alaskan Waters, the Great Depression, and Shifting International Geopolitics in the 1930s (2018)
  • Author(s): T French
  • Organizer: Asia-Pacific Studies Seminar at Osaka University
  • Invited
• [Remarks] Peacetime Anglo-Japanese Military Relations
  • URL: https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ICAS12/fsPopup.asp?Mode=sessioninfo&PresentationID=930215
• [Remarks] Views of Japan of the Garrison of Yokohama
  • URL: https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ICAS12/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=929569
• [Remarks] The UK-Japan Security Partnership Century
  • URL: https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ICAS12/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=929503
• [Remarks] Britain and the Boshin War
  • URL: https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ICAS12/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=929809
• [Remarks] Post 2011 UK-Japan security cooperation
  • URL: https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ICAS12/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=929423
• [Remarks] The British Garrison of Yokohama (1864-1875)
  • URL: https://www.academia.edu/44195818/_Silent_Sentries_Writing_the_British_Garrison_of_Yokohama_1864_1875_back_into_the_History_of_the_Bakumatsu_and_Early_Meiji_Eras
• [Remarks] YOUTUBE:British Troops in Japan:1864-1875
  • URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMSfMD71-s4
• [Remarks] EFEO:‘Tommy Atkins’ in Japan
  • URL: https://www.efeo.fr/blogs_post.php?bid=10&nid=3963&l=FR&y=2021
• [Remarks] ISEAS:‘Tommy Atkins’ in Japan
  • URL: https://iseas-kyoto.org/eventi/lezioni
• [Remarks] MJHW:British Troops in Japan:1864-1875
  • URL: https://sites.google.com/site/modernjapanhistoryworkshop/media#h.g2skvhsv02hj
• [Remarks] The First ‘Occupation’ of Japan
  • URL: https://www.winchester.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/event-items/postponed---the-first-occupation-of-japan.php
• [Funded Workshop] ICAS 12 Panel - The Lion and the Sun: Peacetime Anglo-Japanese Military Relations from Bakumatsu to Brexit (2021)