?Students of Modern Japan and international history are indebted, once again, to Ian Nish, who is the world's leading authority on the Anglo-Japanese alliance....Nish wields the steady hand of a master craftsman in a new synthesis of Japanese diplmacy from 1919-1943....As an up-to-date compendium of recent European scholarship on Japanese imperialism, this is an invaluable survey. As a compact yet authoritative synthesis of Japanese foreign policy initiates from 1919 to 1943, it will remain a standard reference for years to come.?-International History Review