Japan and the Decline of the West

by Richard Storry

The work outlines the great political and diplomatic changes induced by the emergence of the Japanese Empire on the international scene, starting “ad finem res”, that is, from the rapid operations Japanese military in Shanghai on December 8, 1941; therefore, the author focused on the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the multiple causes that led to the Anglo-Japanese alliance of January 1902 and on the long confrontation between Tokyo and the Russian Empire about Korea and Southern Manchuria, which resulted in a bloody war (1904-05) with extensive military, political, financial and social repercussions. Storry also does not forget to link these major events to internal contingencies and to the delicate problem of Japanese immigration into the United States. ( Amazon customer)

186 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Richard Storry was educated at Repton and Merton College, Oxford, where he held a History Postmastership. In 1937, he accepted an appointment as Lecturer in English at Otaru Koto Shogyo Gakko (now Otaru University of Commerce), Hokkaido from 1937-40 before returning to Europe and served in the intelligence corps across the world earning the rank of Major

Richard Storry began his academic study of Japanese history as a Research Scholar
of the Australian National University in 1947. In 1952 he became a Research Fellow
of the School of Pacific Studies at the same university, where he remained until 1955.
From 1955 to I960 he was Roger Heyworth Memorial Research Fellow at St.
Antony's College, Oxford. In I960 he became an Official Fellow of the College and
he was appointed a Special Lecturer in Far Eastern Studies. In 1970 he became
Director of St. Antony's Far East Centre. In 1981 he was appointed to an ad
hominem Professorship of Japanese Studies by the university

held the position of Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford and Director of the Far East Centre at St Antony's College from 1970 until his retirement. He was a member of the Editorial Board of History Today and frequently contributed to that magazine.