In a war between America and Japan, which is to-day
a proximate possibility, sympathies in this country would
surely be with our cousins. To what extent our sym-
pathies might go is another question. But one thing is
perfectly certain : should they go to extremes then we
should be well provided with occupation in quenching
political arson in our Asiatic dominions. Japan's poUcy
is to control China, and, through China, to dominate
Asia. The frontal attack on Asia through China is tem-
porarily stopped. But there are back-doors, and one
of them is India. Fortunately the Indian authorities
are wide awake to the dangers.
A. M. P.
London,

October 30, igig.
CONTENTS



PAGE

PREFACE ........ 7

CHAPTER

I. JAPAN AND THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCES . ii

n. JAPAN'S REAL POLICY IN CHINA . . . .38

III. THE FIRST REVOLUTION IN CHINA, 1911-12 . . 60

IV. THE SECOND REVOLUTION IN CHINA, 1912-13 . . 75
V. JAPAN, AMERICA AND MEXICO, 1911-14 . . .106

VI. THE TWENTY-ONE DEMANDS . . . .138

VII. JAPAN'S COMMERCIAL EXPANSION, 1914-18 . . 174

NOTE .... ... 197



Japan's Foreign Policies

CHAPTER I

JAPAN AND THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCES

" C'est ce qu'on ne dit pas qu'explique ce qu'on dit."

Since the publication of the late Count Hayashi's
Memoirs foreign estimates of Japanese diplomacy have
had to be revised. As will be remembered, the late Count,
who filled the offices of Vice-Minister and Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Minister at Peking and St. Petersburg,
and Minister and Ambassador at London, discharged an
arrow from the tomb in the shape of an extremely piquant
memorandum of the negotiations which led up to the
signature of the first Anglo- Japanese Treaty of Alliance.
