FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR JAPAN AND THE FAR EAST
Series Two: British Foreign Office Files for Post-War Japan, 1952-1980
(Public Record Office Classes FO 371 and FCO 21)

Part 3: Complete Files for 1957-1959
(PRO Class FO 371/127521-127598, 133577-133659 & 141415-141530)

Part 3 brings together the complete files for 1957-1959 looking at such issues and events as:

• Kishi and the Liberal Democrats.
• Relations with the Soviet Union.
• Friction in relations with the United States.
• Opposition to Nuclear Tests.
• Long term defence plans, choice of fighter aircraft and tests of guided missiles in Japan.
• Industrial Relations in Japan.
• The retirement of Sir Esler Dening.
• Japan and the United Nations.
• Korea and the release and repatriation of detainees.
• Anglo-Japanese Trade and Commerce.
• Japan and Formosa.
• Japan and China.
• Socialist boycotts of the Japanese Diet.