Axis Diplomacy in Comparison: The Japanese and Italian Foreign Ministry in the 1930s

Authors

  • Ken Ishida

Keywords:

Axis, Diplomacy, Comparative History, Italy, Japan

Abstract

Italy and Japan, which were the component of the Axis in the 1930s, had significant common features in their foreign policies although there were some structural differences in decision-making process. There were decisive developments in 1936 when Italy intervened in the Spanish Civil War and in 1937 when Japan started the all-out war against China. By comparing them, it was not only fanatic Fascists and ultranationalists that respectively pushed their countries towards adopting aggressive and reckless foreign policies, but also their foreign ministries despite the conventional wisdom that diplomats are often seen as being more moderate and rational.

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Author Biography

Ken Ishida

Professor at Chiba University, Faculty of Law, Politics and Economics Dean of Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Chiba University from 2009 to 2011. Articles and books in Western languages “Due interpretazioni del fascismo in Italia e Giappone: Renzo De Felice e Masao Maruyama.” Italia contemporanea, numero 223 (giugno 2001), 325-331. “Racism Compared: Fascist Italy and Ultranationalist Japan.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 (autumn 2002), 380-391. “The German-Japanese-Italian Axis as Seen from Fascist Italy.” Ed. by Kudo Akira, Tajima Nobuo and Erich Pauer. Japan and Germany: Two Latecomers to the World Stage, 1890-1945. Vol. II: The Pluralistic Dynamic of the Formation of the Axis. Folkestone: Global Oriental Ltd, 2009, pp. 262-301. “Il problema dei crimini di guerra in Giappone e in Italia. Tre punti di vista comparati.” A cura di Giovanni Contini, Filippo Focardi e Marta Petricioli. Memoria e rimozione: I crimini di guerra del Giappone e dell’Italia. Roma: Viella, 2010, pp. 19-31.

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How to Cite

Ishida, K. (2015). Axis Diplomacy in Comparison: The Japanese and Italian Foreign Ministry in the 1930s. Segle XX, Revista Catalana d’Història, (7), 1–12. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/segleXX/article/view/11234

Issue

No. 7 (2014)

Section

Researches and essays

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