Japanese Diplomacy and the New Four-Power consortium

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16825
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: Kyoto University (2015, 2017); Osaka University (2016)
• Principal Investigator: Kubota Yuji 京都大学, 大学文書館, 特定助教 (70747477)
• Research Collaborator: HISANO Yo
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 日本外交 / 新四国借款団 / 勢力圏 / 日中英関係

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study revealed following points. First, When the New Four-Power Consortium was organized, Japanese diplomacy could not decide to participate in this group quickly, and paid great attention to British diplomacy carefully. Japanese diplomats in foreign countries often requested to Japanese Foreign Office that Japanese government would participate in the New Four-Power Consortium, but Japanese government could not decide to participation quickly.
Second, British and Chinese reactions againt the relationship between Japan and the New Four-power consortium. As previous study mentioned, It is sure that Japan and US played the most important role in this consortium. This study insisted that Britain already had been influential in this group, and China had big influences to this group as the outsider.

Free Research Field

日本政治外交史