ABSTRACT
The international studies series of Cambridge University Press has presented us with two books that make an important contribution to the study of Japan's international relations in the first half of this century. Ian Nish's book, a conference volume, is the product of the Anglo-Japanese Conference on the History of the Second World War, held in London in 1979. It contains fifteen articles written by thirteen scholars, of whom about half are Japanese and the other half, British. Although the focus of the book is the Pacific war, the articles cover the whole period from the end of World War I up to the San Francisco peace treaty with Japan.
