Anglo-Japanese Alliance
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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was an alliance between the United Kingdom and the Empire of Japan which was effective from 1902 to 1923. The treaty creating the alliance was signed at Lansdowne House in
Japanese copy of the alliance treaty
Hayashi Tadasu, Japanese signatory of the alliance
Illustration by E.Huskinson for the Conservative Party c. 1905–1910.
Lord Lansdowne, the British signatory
Four-Power Treaty
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The Four-Power Treaty was a treaty signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference on 13 December 1921. It was partly a follow-up to the Lansing-Is
Anglo-Japanese Alliance
…territories in Asia. Britain grew increasingly distrustful of Japan over its Asian ambitions, and the alliance was ended with the signing of the Four-Power Treaty in 1921 and terminated upon its ratification in 1923. The possibility of an alliance between Great Britain and Japan had been canvassed since 1895…
First page of the treaty