For over a decade, Japan and the UK have identified one another as their most important security partners in Asia and Europe respectively. The two countries currently enjoy a high in bilateral military partnership that has been referred to as a ‘quasi alliance’. Looking back, however, there have been ups and downs since the days of the bilateral alliance over a century ago.
UEA’s Ra Mason was amongst the authors of a new book that explores how peacetime military relations between Japan and the UK have played out from Bakumatsu to Brexit.
Watch presentations from the book launch below.
The book is available here.
