FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR JAPAN AND THE FAR EAST
Series One: Embassy & Consular Archives - Japan (1905-1940)
(Public Record Office Class FO 262)

Part 1: Imperial Expansion and the Rise of Capitalism. (FO 262/1466-1511, 2033-2034) Correspondence to and from Japan, 1905-1920

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REEL 1
FO 262/1466
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir Claude M Macdonald, the British Envoy, and then Ambassador, to Baron Komur Jútaró, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Count Katsura Taró, with Notes, Memoranda, reports and Other Papers, 4 January 1905 - 30 December 1905 including material on:
~ The Case of Bowden Brothers against Imperial Marine Transport Company
~ The Seizure of the British Steamships the Sishan and Eastry
~ The Proceedings of the Sazeboprize Court in the cases of the steamships Sishan and Nigretia
~ Regulations concerning the immigration of Chinese Labourers into Formosa and activities of the Sino-Formosan Emigration Company
~ Visit of Sir Michael Hicks Beach to Tokyo
~ Visit of HM Ships from the British Squadron on the China Station to Yokohama and other Japanese ports
~ Detention of the British Steamship Crusader
~ Legislation on Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
~ Visit of HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught
~ Enquiry to obtain statistics on copper production and other enquiries for commercial introductions
~ Railway Laws
~ Sir Edward Grey taking over from the Marquess of Lansdowne as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
~ The decision to raise the status of the Diplomatic Mission to that of an Embassy and the selection of Sir Claude M Macdonald as His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to HRM
~ Japanese order for submarine boats from Vickers Maxim at Barrow ff 1-276

FO 262/1467
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Baron Komura Jútaró, and Sir Claude MacDonald, the British Ambassador, with Notes, Memoranda, Reports and Other papers, 2 January 1905 - 28 December 1905 including material on:
~ The Blockade of the Liaotung Peninsula
~ Import duty on petroleum and kerosene oil
~ Japanese Government leather purchases for the military
~ Replies to requests and acknowledgements of receipts of letters and notes from Sir Claude M MacDonald
~ Economic features of Japan since the outbreak of the War with Russia
~ The Immigration Restriction Act
~ Seal fishing
~ The Proceedings of the Prize Court in the Cases of the steamships Isthington, Nigretia and Sishan
~ Russian prisoners of war
~ Technical specifications on a new type of Russian field gun captured by the Japanese in Manchuria
~ Railway Mortgage Law
~ The Church Missionary Society in Japan
~ Winter Clothing used by the Japanese Army in Manchuria
~ The capture by the Russians of the steamship Oldhama
~ Count Katsura taking over responsibilities for Foreign Affairs whilst Komura is in America
~ Protection of British and Japanese Trade Marks in China
~ A visit of HM Ships from the British Squadron on the China Station
~ The return of Komura from the USA and Katsura relieved of his post as Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs
~ The visit of HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught
~ Sir Claude M Macdonald being officially recognised form November 17 as Special Ambassador to HRM ff 1-282

REEL 2
FO 262/1468
Correspondence to the Japanese with Notes, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 1 January 1906 - 18 December 1906 including material on:
~ The export of leaf tobacco
~ The Aliens Act, 1905, and immigration into the United Kingdom
~ Chinese-Japanese relations and Sea Trade
~ Japanese legislation to protect seals and the sealing industry
~ Visit to Manchurian battlefields by officers serving the Government of India
~ British observations of Japanese military operations in Manchuria
~ Sir Edward Grey, Metternich and the Berlin Conference on Wireless Telegraphy
~ Trans-Pacific Cable Laying
~ The Japanese Government and the Prince Line Ltd.: Claim concerning the seizure ~ and detention of the steamship Saxon Prince by the Japanese warship Akashi
~ Woollen goods and consumption tax, tariffs and trade
~ Capture and detention of the steamship Linsluden by the Japanese Cruiser " Sado Maru
~ The Treaty of Portsmouth: Japanese and Russian discussions over the ownership of the South Manchurian Railway
~ Blood-sucking insects
~ Congratulations to Admiral Togo
~ Coolie Immigration Traffic and Japanese Authority in Formosa
~ Jiu Jitsu instruction in Western Australia
~ The International Exhibition in Christchurch, 1906, and Educational methods and Equipment in Japan ff 1-279

FO 262/1469
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Hayashi Tadasu and Henry C Lowther, the British Chargé d' Affaires, and also, Sir Claude M MacDonald, the British Ambassador, with Notes, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 2 January 1906 - 28 December 1906 including material on:
~ Visits to arsenals in Japan
~ Japanese representation in Korea
~ Postal and telegraph services in Japan
~ Thanks for British contributions to the relief of dependent relatives of Japanese soldiers and sailors killed or disabled in action
~ Chinese immigrants
~ Protection of patents and trade marks in Japan
~ Arrest of British citizens in Korea suspected as spies
~ Exportation of leaf tobacco
~ Tariffs and trade at Dalny
~ Education in Japan
~ The Famine in north-east Japan: relief contributed by Singapore and Australia
~ Problems in obtaining information on operations from the Japanese General Staff
~ Conference on Electrical Units and Standards
~ Recovery and suggested return of stray torpedo
~ Sazebo Prize Court and the capture of the steamship Mukden
~ Russo-Japanese agreement on Manchurian railway
~ Laws relating to seaman and merchant trade ff 1-238

FO 262/1470
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Henry C Lowther, the British Chargé d' Affaires, Sir Claude M MacDonald, the British Ambassador and Count Hayashi Tadusu, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 3 January 1907 - 27 December 1907 including material on:
~ Rifles in use in Japan
~ British mining operations in Korea
~ Visit of General Booth of the Salvation Army
~ The Merchant Shipping Act, 1906
~ Assault on two British ladies by a Japanese soldier
~ Ships' cargoes and contraband
~ British honours bestowed upon Japanese officers
~ Trade marks in Japan and taxes on woollen goods ff 1-165

FO 262/1471
Correspondence from the Japanese with Notes, Memoranda, reports and other papers, 7 January 1907 - 26 December 1907 including material on :
~ Seizure of the Saxon Prince
~ The extermination of rats
~ Mining in Korea
~ The Korea Daily News, the Tai-Han Mai-il Shin-po, Mr E T Bethel, and misrepresentations of the actions of the Japanese and Korean Governments in the media
~ South Manchurian Railway and British tenders concerning supply of railway material
~ Trade Mark Regulations
~ Trade Disputes
~ Telegraphic Communications
~ Japanese immigration into Canada ff 1-173

REEL 3
FO 262/1472
Correspondence to the Japanese, in particular to Count Hayashi Tadasu and General Viscount Terauchi, with Notes, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 9 January 1908-29 December 1908, including material on:
~ Proposed bridge over the River Yalu at Antung
~ Kerosene oil in Japan
~ Textiles consumption tax
~ Japanese immigrants
~ International law and powers of prize courts
~ Cases considered by Japanese prize courts
~ Japanese law regarding qualifications for the practice of medicine and surgery in Japan
~ Papers to be carried by merchant shipping
~ Trade marks, legislation and cases concerning trade marks
~ Construction of an electric tramway at Dairen
~ Mineral rights in the Liaotung Peninsula
~ Site for the Vice Consulate at Dairen
~ Boycott of Japanese goods in China
~ Duties of Commercial Attachés
~ Customs scandal at Dairen
~ Japanese emigration into Canada
~ Conference to discuss the establishment of an International Prize Court
~ Claim brought by the Newchwang Land Investment Company
~ Establishment of a British Vice Consulate at Osaka
~ Construction of new consulate buildings at Nagasaki
~ Import duty on crude oil
~ Viscount Terauchi becomes Minister for Foreign Affairs ad interim
~ International Conference on Electrical Units and Standards
~ Trade Marks in China and Korea
~ Customs duties on soaps
~ Universities and Schools in Japan
~ Proposed University for Chinese Students in Hong Kong
~ Japanese Regulations for the Inspection of Passenger Steamships
~ Customs duties and tariffs on rubber goods and caoutchouc
~ London Maritime Law Conference
~ Diagnosis Tallies of Different Armies ff 1-271

FO 262/1473
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly Count Hayashi Tadasu, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and his successor Terauchi Masatake, to Sir Claude M MacDonald, the British Ambassador, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and other Papers; 7 January 1908-28 December 1908, including material on:
~ Japanese Telegraphic Communications
~ Japanese emigration, especially re: Canada and British Columbia
~ Trade marks and patents
~ Proposed electric tramway at Dairen
~ Merchant shipping legislation
~ Regular inspection of passenger steamships
~ Consumption tax on textiles
~ Conference to discuss the establishment of an International Prize Court
~ Disturbances at the Works of the Oriental Forest and Lumber Company at Lino-Mura: telegrams from the Governor of Miyazuki-Ken
~ Boycott of Japanese goods in China; especially with regard to state of affairs in Hong Kong
~ Physicians practising in Japan
~ Projected Hsinmintum-Fakumen Railway
~ The misappropriation of the National Loan Redemption Fund
~ Communications exchanged between the Japanese resident at Seuol and the British Consul-General regarding the arrest and condition of the fugitive Korean, Yang Ki Tak, who had taken refuge in the house of a British subject
~ British and Japanese regulations concerning shipping
~ Japanese and American policies and relations concerning Pacific islands ff 1-223

FO 262/1474
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Horace Rumbold, the British Chargé d' Affaires, Sir Claude MacDonald, the British Ambassador, and Baron Komura Jútaró, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers; 2 January 1909 - 18 December 1909, including material:
~ British Merchant Shipping Act, 1906
~ British regulations concerning foreign ships docking in British ports
~ British ports
~ Tariffs and Trade
~ Cricket ground in Yokohama
~ Blockades and Contraband
~ Laws of Naval Warfare
~ Trade Marks
~ Japanese small-arms ammunition
~ The Japanese-American Commercial Treaty of 1894 and differential tariffs for Britain and America
~ Enquiry about banking arrangements in Manchuria
~ Customs Duties on rubber and caoutchouc
~ The Yokohama Public Garden
~ Lord Kitchener's visit to Japan ff 1-285

REEL 4
FO 262/1475
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Baron Komura Jútaró, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Horace Rumbold, the British Chargé d'Affaires, and Sir Claude M MacDonald, the British Ambassador, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers; 6 January 1909-23 December 1909, including material on:
~ Tenders by Foreigners
~ Enquiries for location of a site for a new hospital for foreigners in Tokyo
~ Japanese and Korean Regulations for Commercial Travellers
~ Custom duties on caoutchouc and rubber manufactures
~ Hong Kong Government's response to Chinese agitation for the exclusion of Japanese goods
~ British regulations concerning foreign ships docking in British ports
~ Trade Marks
~ Mortality amongst employees engaged in mines and works in Japan, 1906-1907
~ Coloured tallies used by armies to indicate the condition of wounded soldiers; suggestions for the adoption of a uniform international system
~ Convention for reciprocal judicial assistance between Japan and Great Britain
~ Postponement of ratification of the Convention regarding the establishment of an International Prize Court
~ Proof of The History of the Russo-Japanese War
~ Customs duties on soap products
~ Minutes of a meeting of the most Influential men held at the House of Marquis Katsura on 14 March 1909 to discuss the Anglo-Japanese Hydro-Electric Undertaking
~ Memorandum regarding the progress of the proposed Anglo-Japanese Hydro- Electric Company Limited
~ Perpetual leases and exemptions from taxation
~ Merchant Shipping regulations and Certificates of Inspection
~ Administration of justice and Prisons in Korea by Japanese Government
~ South Manchuria Railway Company
~ Reconstruction of the Peking-Mukden Railway
~ The Japanese National Anthem
~ Recognition of the River Tumen and the boundary between China and Korea
~ Cricket ground in the Public Gardens at Yokohama ff 1-249

FO 262/1476
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Horace Rumbold, the British Chargé d'Affaires, Sir Claude M MacDonald the British Ambassador, and Baron Komura Jútaró, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers;3 January 1910 - 28 December 1910, including material on:
~ Cricket ground in the public gardens at Yokohama
~ Storage of high exlosives at Kobe
~ Minutes of Meeting held at the British Embassy on 26 April 1910 to discuss the
~ Draft Treaty of Commerce and navigation between Japan and Great Britain
~ Establishment of the Formosan Tea manufacturing Company
~ Death of King Edward VII
~ Trade Marks and Patents
~ Consumption tax on imported textiles
~ Litmus paper tests for explosives
~ Floods
~ Transactions with the Provisional Government of Portugal
~ Failure by the Imperial Railway Administration to call for tenders from British firms
~ Commercial Code of Japan
~ Provisions of the Land Investigation Law ff 1-240

FO 262/1477
Correspondence from the Japanese, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers:6 January 1910 - 28 December 1910, including material on:
~ Storage of explosives
~ Railways in Manchuria
~ Proofs and revisions to The History of the Russo-Japanese War
~ Recognition of Japanese Passenger Steamer Certificates
~ Duties on caoutchouc and rubber products
~ Draft Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Great Britain with annotations
~ Notes regarding the new Draft Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
~ Enquiry about proposed International Opium Conference
~ Convention between Japan and Russia
~ Annexation of Korea to the Empire of Japan
~ Consumption tax on textiles
~ Industrial Property, Trade Marks and Patents
~ Tariff system in Japan ff 1-219

REEL 5
FO 26/1478
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Horace Rumbold, the British Chargé d' Affaires, Sir Claude M MacDonald, the British Ambassador, and Baron Komura Jútaró, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers;1 January 1911 - 30 December 1911, including material on:
~ Explosives
~ Sealing industry
~ Korean Land Investigation Law
~ Railways
~ Tenders for electric machinery for the Osaka Mint
~ Budget
~ The case of the British steamship Taisang
~ Perpetual Leases Question
~ The Convention between Japan and Russia for reciprocal protection of industrial and commercial property
~ Arrangement entre le Japon et la Russie pour la reconnaissance réciproque des sociétes pour actions et autres associations
~ Regulations for commercial travellers
~ Anglo-Japanese Agreement
~ Customs investigaions relating to British firms
~ Extradition Treaty between Japan and Russia
~ Russian legislative measures regarding their territorial waters.
~ The Formosan Tea Manufacturing Company
~ Cases of Animal Diseases in Japan during October and November 1911
~ Death of Marquis Komura
~ Disturbances in China
~ Policy towards China ff 1-232

FO 262/1480
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Horace Rumbold, the British Chargé d' Affaires, and Viscount Uchida Kósai, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and other Papers, 4 January 1912 - 24 December 1912, including material on:
~ Delay in the ratification of the Declaration of London and continuing delay in reaching agreement on the International Prize Court Convention of 1907
~ Proposed abolition of certain export duties from Korea
~ Japan's export trade of hemp braid
~ Failure to ask British firms to tender for railway locomotives
~ Findings of the International Map Committee in 1910
~ Enquiries for the Royal Society of Medicine's Report into the various effects of syphilis and other venereal diseases
~ Tariffs, Trade Marks and Patents
~ Proposed 'Six Power Loan' to China
~ Proposed London Conference on International Rules and Regulations for the
~ Assignment of Load-Lines to Merchant Ships
~ British subjects in South Formosa
~ Tonnage dues levied in Korea on British shipping
~ Order of the British Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 22 April 1912, regulating the importation of horses, asses and mules
~ Life Saving Appliances on Passenger Steamers
~ New site for Yokohama Country and Athletic Club
~ Death of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan
~ Steps taken against the newspaper The Islamic Fraternity
~ China Reorganisation Loan Question ff1-290

REEL 6
FO 262/1481
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Viscount Uchida Kósai, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Horace Rumbold, the British Chargé d'Affaires, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 8 January 1912 - 27 December 1912, including material on:
~ Cases of Animal Diseases in Japan from December 1911 to November 1912
~ Tariffs, Trade Marks and Patents
~ Japanese interests and position in Manchuria
~ Policy towards China; China Reorganisation Loan Question
~ Amendments regarding the Declaration of London and the International Prize Court Convention of 1907
~ Japanese Naval Saluting Regulations
~ British Leaseholders in Formosa
~ Counter-draft of the Imperial Japanese Government of an Extradition Treaty between Japan and the United Kingdom
~ Japanese Red Cross Nurses
~ Life Saving Appliances on Passenger Steamers
~ Korean Trade Statistics, 1907-1911
~ Deteriorating health of the Emperor of Japan and series of regular medical bulletins; Death of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan
~ Perpetual Leases
~ "Principle of the Open Door" concerning commercial questions in China
~ Seal fishing
~ Revised Draft of Convention for the Mutual Protection of Japanese and British Industrial Property in China
~ Reorganisation of the Foreign Settlements in Korea ff 1-250

FO 262/1482
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Horace Rumbold, the British Chargé d'Affaires, Sir W Conyngham Greene, the newly appointed British Ambassador, and Katsura Taró, Baron Kató Takaaki and then Baron Makino Nobuaki, who all served in turn as Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports & Other papers; 2 January 1913 - 30 December 1913, including material on:
~ Reorganisation of Foreign Settlements in Korea
~ Statistics regarding cases of animal diseases in Japan between December 1912 and November 1913
~ Statistics regarding Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ China Reorganisation Loan
~ Proposed extension of the Peking-Mukden Railway from Chinchou to Chaoyang
~ Trade Marks and mutual protection of industrial property rights in China
~ Question of recognition of the Republic of China
~ Coinage and currencies of foreign countries
~ Japanese larch seeds
~ System of inspecting cargo vessels in Japan
~ Abolition of import duties on rice and paddy from Korea
~ International Telegraph Regulations
~ Policy towards China
~ Treatment of prisoners in Japanese gaols
~ Japanese bonds ff 1-150

REEL 7
FO 262/1484
Correspondence to the Japanese mainly between Sir W Conyngham Greene and Makino Nobuaki and Kató Takaki, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 5 January 1914 - 30 December 1914, including material on:
~ Naval salutes
~ Railways in China
~ Japanese interests in Manchuria
~ Seal fishing
~ Plan to unite Pacific shipping services
~ Japanese medical colleges
~ Case of Captain Froggatt
~ Perpetual leases
~ Trade Marks and patents
~ Outbreaks of War in Europe
~ Policy towards China
~ Communications from Sir Edward Grey concerning the hostilities in Europe and safeguarding mutual interests in the Far East
~ Policy towards German forces and port of Kiachow
~ Loss of the British Steamship Glenfarg
~ Prize courts and the release of innocent cargoes
~ German minelaying and submarine activity and counter-measures to be adopted
~ British fire insurance companies in Japan
~ Cargo on German ships in neutral ports
~ Prevention of supplies of rubber, antimony, manganese, wool, lead, plumbage, chrome and copper from reaching the enemy
~ Requests for Japanese banks to refrain from any steps which might assist the enemy ff 1-309

FO 262/1485
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Makino Nobuaki and Kató Takaaki and Sir W Conyngham Greene, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 9 January, 1914-22 December 1914, including material on:
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ Perpetual leases
~ Cases of Animal Diseases in Japan between December 1913 and April 1914
~ Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway
~ Japanese interests in Manchuria
~ Policy towards China
~ Abolition of Foreign Settlements in Korea (Protocol signed at Seoul on 21 April 1913)
~ Funeral of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Dowager of Japan
~ Amendments to the merchant Shipping Regulations
~ Railway construction and commercial interests
~ Case of the SS Suikoko-Maru
~ Statistics on Japanese vessels fishing for sea-otters and fur-seals
~ Tariffs and customs duties
~ Japanese aims in eliminating German influence from China
~ Terms of Japanese Declaration of War
~ Apprehensions of the British Minister at Peking
~ Cargo on German ships in neutral ports
~ Case of Gurra Datta Kumar and other Indians
~ Telegraphic Communications
~ Control of seditious publications transmitted to India from Japan ff 1-242

FO 262/1486
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir Conyngham Greene and Kató Takaaki, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 1 January 1915 - 16 July 1915, including material on:
~ British cargoes at Tsingtao
~ Prevention of supplies crucial to the war effort from reaching the enemy
~ Instructions to Japanese Banks so as not to assist the enemy
~ Telegraphic Communication
~ Motor cars in use at the British Embassy
~ Cargo interned from German vessels at Tsingtao
~ Kiaochow Customs
~ Restrictions on the export of raw rubber and manufactures rubber goods
~ Policy toward China
~ Railway contruction and commercial interests
~ Wool imports from Australia
~ Measures introduced to further enforce the blockade on Germany and counter the German submarine offensive
~ Japanese larch
~ Japanese counter-draft of the Treaty of Extradition
~ Escape of the German prisoner Diehn
~ Trade and commercial interests in China
~ Prohibitions on trading with the enemy in China, Siam, Persia and Morocco ff 1-271

REEL 8
FO 262/1487
Correspondence to the Japanese, with notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 17 July 1915 - 31 December 1915, including material on:
~ Attitude toward vessels transferred from enemy to neutral flags
~ Prohibition on trading with the enemy in China
~ Transmission of enemy funds from Japan to places abroad
~ Restrictions on the export of coal
~ Japanese output of rifles and munitions of war for supply to Russia
~ Trade Marks
~ Consideration of shipments of beans and bean oil to Rotterdam
~ Export of tungsten ores from Japan
~ Prize courts
~ Activities of German firms in China
~ Exports of wool tops ff 1-280

FO 262/1488
Correspondence for the Japanese, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and
Other Papers, 12 January 1915 - 30 December 1915, including material on:
~ International Telegraphic Communications
~ War Material ordered by the Imperial Government from America
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing beween Japan and Canada
~ Prohibition on trading with the enemy
~ Motor cars in use at the British Embassy
~ Safe conducts from Tsingtao for German doctors and their assistants
~ British shipping at Tsingtao
~ Instructions to Japanese banks so as not to assist the enemy
~ Official statement by the Chinese Government respecting the Sino-Japanese negotiations now brought to a conclusion by China's compliance with the terms of Japan's ultimatum delivered on May 7, 1915, especially with regard to Kiaochow and the Shantung Group; the extension of railway leases; South Manchurian Railways; Hanyehping mines; Non-alienation of China's coast, South Machurian mines and settlement rights and land ownership
~ Japan's demands; Japan's revised demands; ultimatum and outcome of the negotiations between Japanese and Chinese governments
~ Alleged German shipments of gold from China to United States of America
~ Arrangements for deliveries of cargoes at Tsingtao
~ Fishing for seal skins and sea-otters. Letters and statistics
~ Regulations for foreign insurance companies
~ Export restrictions on certain goods
~ Alleged violation of neutrality of Panama by British and Japanese Warships
~ British views on the negotiations between the Japanese and Chinese Governments
~ Japanese Larch
~ Prize Courts
~ Documents regarding the negotiations between Japan and China
~ Question of the deportation of Bhagwan Singh
~ Possibility of a closer Russo-Japanese rapprochement
~ Reopening of the office of the Chinese Maritime Customs at Tsingtao
~ Custom duties and tariffs
~ Supply by Japan to Russia of rifles and munitions of war
~ Question of transfer of enemy funds abroad
~ Investigation of a species of the mosquito family
~ Export of woollen manufactures goods ff 1-454

REEL 9
FO 262/1489
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir W Conyngham Greene, the British Ambassador, and Ishii Kikujiró, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 1 January 1916 - 25 May 1916 including material on:
~ Foreign chartered accountants in Japan
~ Policy towards China
~ Trade and customs duties
~ Exports of tungsten ores from Japan
~ Prohibition of enemy trading
~ Instructions to merchant shipping
~ Activities of German raiding cruisers disguised as merchantmen
~ German submarine warfare
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Searches of merchant vessels
~ Interview in Stockholm between Japanese and German ministers and possible peace overtures from the enemy ff 1-260

FO 262/1490
Correspondence to the Japanese, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 26 May 1916 - 2 2 September 1916, including material on:
~ Export restrictions on tungsten, wolfram and scheelite
~ Contracts for delivery of high speed steel
~ Chinese salt revenues
~ American involvement in possible recontruction of a consortium in China
~ Draft Russo-Japanese Agreement
~ Prohibition of trade with the enemy
~ German submarines
~ Certificates of interest for imported goods
~ Case of Mr I J Herman
~ Swedish Victualling Commission and the case of the Swedish steamship Liguria
~ Export of woollen goods to neutral countries
~ Statistics concerning traders in Japan
~ Controls on the exporting of antimony
~ Shipments of boots from Osaka and investigation into the involvement of three Germans
~ Activites of German firms and traders under cover of neutral firms and devious methods to penetrate the blockade ff 1-284

FO 262/1491
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir W Conyngham Greene and Terauchi Mastake, with Notes, Translation, Memoranda, Reports and Other papers, 23 September 1916 - 28 December 1916, including material on:
~ Export of consignments of woollen goods
~ Consideration of 'unfriendly' newspapers
~ Defence of the Realm Regulations
~ Prohibition of trade with the enemy and lists of ‘approved’ firms
~ Question of reprisals against prisoners of war
~ Fur-sealing and the fur trade
~ Disinfection of hair used in the manufacture of shaving brushes in Japan
~ Exclusion from Japan of ‘unfriendly’ newspapers and periodicals published in the Dutch East Indies
~ Approved firms in China and Siam
~ System of collection of commercial intelligence
~ Proscribed list of 81 'unfriendly' newspapers and periodicals
~ Recommended firms in Japan as importers of jute from British possessions ff 1-297

REEL 10
FO 262/1492
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Ishii Kikujiró and Sir W Conyngham Green, with Notes, Translation, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 6 January 1916 - 25 August 1916, including material on:
~ Statistics on Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ Prize Courts
~ Trade in wool tops
~ Cable censorship at Hong Kong
~ Prohibition of trade with the enemy
~ Trade in antimony
~ Careful watch on activities of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Coinage and currency of Japan
~ Consignments of dynamite imported by the firm of Kanamaru
~ New procedures for HM ships stopping suspicious vessels
~ Capture of the German vessel Derfflinger at Alexandria
~ Laws and regulations re the control of exported and imported plants
~ Export of tungsten ores
~ Memorandum on enemy traders in Japan
~ Procedure for boarding merchant ships
~ Control of the export of rubber manufactures goods
~ American involvement in the possible recontitution of a consortium in China
~ Chinese Reorganisation Loan
~ Exclusion from Japan of ‘unfriendly’ newspapers and periodicals
~ Certificates of interest
~ Commercial Code of Japan ff 1-300

FO 262/1493
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Terauchi Masatake and Sir W Conyngham Greene, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 25 August 1916 - 30 December 1916 including material on:
~ Careful watch on activities of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Exclusion form Japan of "unfriendly" newspapers and periodicals
~ Export of tungsten ores
~ Statistics on Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ Japanese larch seeds
~ International Telegraphic Communications
~ Export of tallow from Australia
~ Timber used in railway sleepers
~ Restrictions applied to foreign mail, telegram and postal orders
~ Export of copper from Japan to Sweden
~ British Government Yen Exchequer Bonds ff 1-261

FO 262/1494
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir W Conyngham Greene and Motono Ichiró, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 3 January 1917 - 20 April 1917, including material on :
~ Export of tallow
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Approved Firms in China and Siam
~ Activities of Templeman Steamship Company and its intermediaries
~ Regulations regarding censorship of posts and telegraphs
~ Careful watch on activities of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Investigations of firms suspected of acting as intermediaries for enemy business
~ Trade in seal skins
~ Recommended list (published in The London Gazette, 8 December 1916) of persons and firms for the export of goods to China
~ Case of Mr A Greppi
~ Ordinance for Siam mining concession
~ Proposed suspension of Japanese imports into Holland and Scandinavia of all raw and waste silk
~ Coinage and currency in Japan
~ Shipments of coolies across the Pacific to Vancouver
~ Policy towards China
~ German raider 'at large' in the Indian Ocean
~ Additions, removals and variations in the British Statutory List regarding trading with the enemy
~ Recommended list (published in The London Gazette, 16 February 1917) of persons and firms for the export of goods to China ff 1-368

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FO 262/1495
Correspondence to the Japanese with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 20 April 1917 - 18 August 1917, including material on:
~ Shipments of coolies
~ Additions, removals and variations in the British Statutory List regarding trading with the enemy
~ Cover addresses for enemy correspondence in Holland
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Embargo on fish products supplied to Denmark and Sweden
~ Approved Firms in China and Siam
~ Invention of paravanes used by submarines for clearing minefields
~ Export of tallow
~ Possible requisition of Japanese shipping for Allied war services
~ Intermediaries operating on behalf of enemy firms
~ Careful watch on activites of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Co-operation between Japan and Britain regarding prize courts
~ Situation in Russia
~ Prohibition of trading with the enemy
~ Recommended list (published in The London Gazette, 18 May 1917) of persons and firms for the export of goods to China
~ Licences for the export of morphia
~ Statutory list for the Netherlands East Indies ff 1-323

FO 262/1496
Correspondence to the Japanese, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 18 August 1917 - 31 December 1917, including material on:
~ Approved firms in China and Siam
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Programme of Nippon Race Club - Autumn Meeting
~ Co-operation between Allied Naval Powers
~ Co-ordination with American Naval Forces
~ Careful watch on activities of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Additions, removals and variations in the British Stautory list regarding trading with the enemy
~ Additions to the Netherlands East Indies Statutory List
~ Steel material required for completion of steamers intended for ultimate delivery to the British Government
~ Exports of fishing nets to Scandinavia
~ Tariffs on goods entering China across the Russian frontier
~ German announcement about treating hospital ships as legitimate targets ff 1-346

REEL 12
FO 262/1497
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Motono Ichiró and Sir W Conyngham Greene, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and other Papers, 5 January 1917 - 12 June 1917, including material on:
~ Question of requistioning Japanese vessels for use by Allied Powers
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Additions of intermediaries operating on behalf of enemy firms
~ Co-operation between Naval Forces of Allied Powers
~ Exhibition of British war films in Yokohama
~ Control of the export of rubber goods
~ Regulations for the control of prostitiutes
~ Case of Mr A Greppi
~ Australian tallow
~ Co-operation concerning prize courts
~ Purchase of enemy vessels lying in Chinese ports
~ Nippon Glycerine Manufacturing Company Limited
~ Enquiry regarding Jaluit Gesellschaft
~ Supplies and drugs from the Japanese Red Cross Societies
~ Careful watch on activities of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Ordinance prohibiting trade with enemies
~ Secret treatment of patented inventions connected with national defence
~ Shipments of Chinese coolies
~ Coinage and currency of Japan
~ Seditious publications ff 1-360

FO 262/1498
Correspondence from the Japanese, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 12 June 1917 - 29 December 1917, including material on:
~ Tarak Nath Das and publications "Is Japan a Menace to Asia?" and "Japan's Great Mistake"
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Intercepted letters and careful watch on activities of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Export of fishing nets and other fishing implements from Japan to Sweden, Norway and Denmark
~ Detention of six Indians and one US citizen of German origin on board the Empress of Asia
~ Question of requisition of Japanese shipping
~ Shortage of shipbuilding materials
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ Purchase of enemy vessels lying in Chinese ports
~ British Statutory List of Prohibited Traders
~ Ordinance prohibiting trade with the enemy
~ Enquiry regarding machine tools for shipbuilding
~ Supplies and drugs from the Japanese Red Cross Society
~ Volume V of the Official Guide to Eastern Asia
~ Policy towards China
~ Export of ferro-tungsten
~ Notes exchanged between the Japanese Special Ambassador and the Secretary of State of the United States (November 1917)
~ Export of tungsten ore ff 1-373

REEL 13
FO 262/1499
Correspondence to the Japanese mainly between Sir W Conygham Greene, the British Ambassador, and Motono Ichiró, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 1 January 1918 - 14 May 1918, including material on:
~ Revision of guarantees and bonds re exports to Russia
~ Contracts re printing paper
~ Increases in parcel post
~ Revisions to the form of Certificate of Survey for Sea-going Steamships under the Indian Steamships Act of 1884
~ Trade Marks
~ British Government Yen Treasury Bills
~ Food shortages
~ Statutory List for Batavia
~ Activities of intermediaries in behalf of enemy firms
~ Shipments of Rangoon rice
~ Nickel exports to Russia
~ Shipments of tallow from Australia
~ Spring meeting of the Nippon Race Club
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Careful watch on activities of suspect persons, firms, cargoes and vessels
~ Frequent visits of G Kiehl to No. 19 Gochome Hirakawa Cho where he is met by other Germans
~ German submarine menace
~ British Statutory List
~ Protocole des Ambassadeurs
~ Approved firms in China and Siam ff 1-375

FO 262/1500
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir W Conyngham Greene, the British Ambassador, and Gotó Shinpei, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 14 May 1918 - 7 September 1918, including material on:
~ Shipping of paper parachutes via Sweden
~ British Statutory List
~ Lists of Importers and Users of Electrical Material (Allied or Neutral Houses)
~ Shortage of materials for shipbuilding
~ Approved firms in China and Siam
~ Additions to the Statutory List for the Netherlands East Indies
~ Japan's requirements of raw materials from the British Empire
~ Japan's ability to supply raw materials to the British Empire
~ Enemy deportees from China
~ Export of woollen goods
~ List of persons who should be carefully watched
~ Question of Allied intervention in Russia
~ Cases of Trade with Enemy (reported in The Japan Advertiser, 28 June 1918)
~ Additions to Statutory List for Mexico and Uruquay
~ Proposals for Allied intervention in Russia
~ Declaration of the British Government to the peoples of Russia
~ List of Articles Embargoed for Sweden ff 1-375

REEL 14
FO 262/1501
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir W Conyngham Greene, the British Ambassador, and Uchida Kósai, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 4 September 1918 - 30 December 1918, including material on:
~ Careful watch on activities of suspect persons and suspicious firms
~ Reorganisation of the Siberian Railways
~ Allied intervention in Russia
~ British Statutory List
~ Export of woollen goods
~ Approved firms in China and Siam
~ Armistice with Bulgaria
~ American Expeditionary forces in Siberia and Russia
~ Recommended list of persons and firms for the export of goods (published in The London Gazette, 23 May 1918)
~ Summary of a plan for the management of the Chinese Eastern and Trans- Siberian Railways in Allied Military Zones
~ Prince Fushini's visit to London
~ Speech in Tokyo to mark the signing of the Armistice
~ Morphine, cocaine and opium trade and morphia smuggled into China from Japan
~ Shortage of Allied railway rolling stock ff 1-350

FO 262/1502
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Motono Ichiró and Gotó Shinpei, his successor at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, and Sir W Conyngham Greene, the British Ambassador, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 5 January 1918 - 20 July 1918, including material on:
~ Reports of conditions in Russia
~ Shipment of tea chests to India
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ Rangoon rice trade
~ Abuse of diplomatic pouches by Russian Bolshevik agents
~ Patented invention for protection against mechanical mines and submarines
~ Résumé of telegrams received from the Japanese Consul General at Vladivostock respecting the situation in that region
~ Importance of forestalling German designs on the Baltic Provinces
~ Trade marks and patents
~ Exports of sodium nitrate
~ Denunciation of the Italo-Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1912
~ Japanese support for the British Red Cross
~ Woollen trade in Shanghai - a dispute concerning Carl Grubanu & Son and the Deutche-Asiatische Bank
~ Japanese importation of German goods in wartime
~ The Telegraph Law and the Wireless Telegraph Law
~ America-Japanese relations and Japanese involvement in Siberia
~ Japanese armament supplies to Czechoslovakian troops at Vladivostock ff 1-320

FO 262/1503
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Uchida Kósai, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Sir W Conyngham Greene, the British Ambassador, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 20 July 1918 - 28 December 1918, including material on:
~ Ship construction
~ Sino-Japanese relations and economic co-operation
~ Contraventions of the Trading with the Enemy Prohibition Ordinance
~ Japanese support of the British Red Cross
~ Quinine and cinchona bark supplies to the Allies
~ Visit of HIM Prince Hgashi-Fushimi to Britain via Canada
~ Proposed arrest of Bolshevik leaders in Vladivostock
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ Alleged plot against Prince Arthur of Connaught during his visit to Japan
~ Proposed reorganisation of Trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern Railways
~ Coal shipments to Europe via Indian ports
~ Political situation in Siberia
~ Repudiation of acts by Russian terrorists
~ Nitrate of soda requirements of Japan
~ Mail for prisoners of war in Japan
~ Japanese military expedition to Siberia ff 1-247

REEL 15
FO 262/1504
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir Conyngham Greene, and Uchida Kósai, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 2 January 1919 - 27 June 1919, including material on:
~ Payments of enemy prisoners of war in Japan
~ Paris Peace Conference
~ Estonian and Lithuanian crises
~ German attacks on British hospital ships
~ Telegram from Balfour regarding control of troops in Siberia
~ Approved firms in China and Siam
~ Trading with the Enemy contravention: Suzuki & Co and Carl Walter & Co
~ Woollen trade and the export of tin from Japan
~ Japan and the German-Hindu Conspiracy Case: details concerning conspirators in Japan
~ Nippon Race Club - Spring Meeting 1919
~ Wireless telegraph messages; ship to shore
~ Freight charges on the South Manchuria Railway
~ The Crawford Incident concerning South Manchurian Railway Guards
~ British honours for Japanese armed forces personnel
~ Loans to China
~ Meeting of Blockade Committee and the resumption of trade in some areas
~ Japanese policy concerning Siberia and co-ordination with British policy
~ Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Owner) Act: statutory list of white and blacklisted companies ff 1-401

FO 262/1505
Correspondence to the Japanese, with Notes, Translations, memoranda, Reports and Other papers, 27 June 1919 - 31 December, 1919, including material on:
~ Chinese coolies repatriated from France to Tsingtao
~ Inspection of captured or surrendered German submarines
~ Construction of war memorials
~ Losses in maritime tonnage sustained during the war by Allied and associated powers
~ The sale of arms to firms at Helsingfors - the Arms Convention
~ The International Labour Conference
~ Expulsion of a Japanese academic from India due to connections with the Indian Revolutionary Party
~ The future of India
~ Abolition of flogging in Korea
~ Legal obligations of shipowners in Japan
~ Treatment of detained mails
~ Validity of Japanese passports
~ First publication of the Taisho Nighi-Nighi Shimbun
~ Purchase of property in Tsingtao ff 1-377

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FO 262/1506
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Uchida Kósai and Sir W Conyngham Greene, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 6 January 1919 - 6 August 1919, including material on:
~ Japanese Involvement in Siberia
~ Interference with freight traffic on the Siberian railway
~ Rangoon Beans
~ Payments to German prisoners of war in Japan
~ Shanghai Peace Conference
~ Organisation of the Trans-Siberian Railway
~ Coinage and currency of Japan
~ Supply of quinine and cinchona bark
~ The Konshin Maru Incident - Murder in Korea
~ Japanese investigations or American and British business, economics and social organisation ff 1-285

FO 262/1507
Correspondence from the Japanese, with Notes, Tranlations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers, 16 August 1919 - 5 December 1919, including material on:
~ Salt monopoly in Japan and proposed Canadian imports
~ Sopwith aeroplane manufacture in Japan
~ Japanese good wishes to the Canadian people and Government on the laying of the cornerstone of the Canadian Parliament
~ Presence of British representatives at Japanese military manoeuvres
~ Request for teaching materials regarding England for Japanese schools
~ British-Japanese-Chinese relations and discussion, re Tibet
~ Industrial statistics and details for Japan, 1910-1918
~ Organisation of the Siberian railways
~ Japanese maritime losses during the war (with tables)
~ Russian emigration to Britian via Japan
~ Japanese laws regarding the accommodation and treatment of seamen
~ Loans to China ff 1-198

FO 262/1508
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir Charles Eliot, the newly appointed British Ambassador, and Uchida Kósai, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers; 1 January 1920 - 24 June 1920, including material on:
~ Arms sales to China by Italy
~ Wireless telegraphy in China: interest of Marconi and Mitsui
~ Trade dispute between British firms in Shanghai and the South Manchuria Railway Company concerning steel plate
~ Portuguese activity in Macao: Sino-Portuguese relations
~ Arms Traffic Convention: Arms traffic control
~ Opium trade in India and elsewhere
~ Chartered Accountants in Japan
~ Paris Peace Treaty enforcement
~ Quarantine regulations
~ Central European relief and reconstruction
~ Fur sealing ff 1-294

REEL 17
FO 262/1509
Correspondence to the Japanese, mainly between Sir Charles Eliot, and Uchida Kósai, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers; 24 June 1920 - 31 December 1920, including material on:
~ Arms Traffic Convention
~ Turkish prisoners of war
~ Passport formalities
~ Nippon Race Club - Autumn Meeting 1920
~ Turkish peace Treaty
~ Oil Tanks of the Asiatic petroleum Company in Tsingtao and Jardine-Matheson
~ Case of G L Shaw and the jurisdiction of the Japanese Penal Code outside of Japan
~ Wireless telegraphy
~ Australian War Museum present to Japan
~ Judicial assistance ff 1-223

FO 262/1510
Correspondence from the Japanese, mainly between Uchida Kósai and Sir Charles Eliot,with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers; 4 January 1920 - 16 June 1920, including material on:
~ Allied War Memorial
~ Discovery of mines at sea
~ Seal population figures
~ Enemy shipping captured during the war by the Imperial Navy
~ Repatriation of prisoners of war
~ The Dredging of Macao by the Portuguese
~ British-Japanese-American-French discussions of Chinese loans
~ Ship's navigation lights
~ Trade dispute: Heath & Co of Shanghai and the South Manchura Railway Company regarding cancelled orders for steel plate
~ Japanese sphere of infleunce in the Far East and the fear of Russian Revolutionary attitudes spreading eastwards
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing between Japan and Canada
~ New consotium for loans to China
~ The Temperance movement in Japan ff 1-203

FO 262/1511
Correspondence from the Japanese, with Notes, Translations, Memoranda, Reports and Other Papers; 18 June 1920 - 28 December 1920, including material on:
~ Omsk Gold Minig Company
~ Japanese administraion of Tsingtao
~ Dealings with the League of Nations
~ Repatriation of Turkish prisoners of war in Liberia
~ Medical practice in Japan
~ Renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1911
~ The British American Tobacco Trust and appeals for compensation following the the tobacco tax legislation in Korea
~ Statistics of Japanese passengers sailing to and from Canada
~ The G L Shaw case and the jurisdiction of Japanese law outside of Japan
~ The Canadian Trade Commissioner
~ Italian arms sales to China
~ The Hindu Association at Yokohama ff 1-258

REEL 18
FO 262/2033
Correspondence concerning municipal Taxes imposed upon Holders of Perpetual Leases, 13 December 1905 - 4 November 1911:
~ Leaseholders
~ Tax on income from Perpetual Leasehold property in Japan
~ Land Tax and Property ff 1-391

FO 262/2034
Correspondence concerning municipal taxes imposed upon holders of perpetual Leases, 2 July 1912 - 20 July 1914.Files are arranged by topics, the date sequence within each topic appears in reverse order. The main topics are:
~ Japanese Juridical Persons
~ Leaseholders
~ Land Tax and Municipal Tax ff 1-153

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