Japan–United Kingdom relations
Japan–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom.
Prime Minister of Japan and the United Kingdom, Fumio Kishida and Rishi Sunak (respectively) for a bilateral meeting at the Tower of London on 11 January 2023
The 1613 letter of King James I remitted to Tokugawa Ieyasu (preserved in the Tokyo University archives)
The Blue Bower (1865) sitter poses with a Koto.
Japanese Village in Knightsbridge, 1886
HMS Phaeton was a 38-gun, Minerva-class fifth rate of Britain's Royal Navy. This frigate was most noted for her intrusion into Nagasaki harbour in 1808. John Smallshaw built Phaeton in Liverpool between 1780 and 1782. She participated in numerous engagements during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars during which service she captured many prizes. Francis Beaufort, inventor of the Beaufort Wind-Scale, was a lieutenant on Phaeton when he distinguished himself during a successful cutting out expedition. Phaeton sailed to the Pacific in 1805, and returned in 1812. She was finally sold on 26 March 1828.
Contemporary Japanese drawing of HMS Phaeton (Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture)
Sir Andrew Snape Douglas
Portrait of Queen Caroline, ca. 1820, by James Lonsdale
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, c. 1840, by Frederick Richard Say, from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London