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

Part 5: Detailed Correspondence for 1930-1933 (PRO Class FO 262/1742-1860, 1989-2003 & 2035)

Part 5 concentrates on the period 1930-1933 with particularly strong files on subjects such as:

• The Growth of the Military.
• The World Financial Crisis
• The invasion of Manchuria.
• Developments in Manchuria and the Manchukuo Administration.
• The situation in Shanghai.
• The Lytton Commission Report.
• Naval Disarmament.
• The South Manchuria Railway.
• Japan: Finance & Economy.
• China, Formosa and Korea.
• The Peking-Mukden Railway.
• Relations between Japan and America.
• Communism.
• Education in Japan.
• Labour and Industrial Relations in Japan.
• Japanese activities in the Netherlands East Indies.
• Japanese aggression against China.

There is also material on the Control of Drug Traffic and on Feminism and
Anti-Feminism in Japan.