FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR JAPAN AND THE FAR EAST
Series Three: Embassy & Consular Archives - Japan (post 1945)
(Public Record Office Class FO 262)

Detailed Correspondence for 1945-1957 (PRO Class FO 262/2040-2132)

These Embassy and Consular files are a prime source for social, political, economic and diplomatic historians studying the history of modern Japan.

• There are interviews with General Douglas MacArthur.
• There are key files on the Japanese Constitution and the Peace Treaty.
• Many documents cover Japanese relations with Asia.
• There is extensive coverage and comment on the Proceedings of the Japanese Diet.

Throughout the files scholars can find the assessments of the Ambassador -
Sir Charles Gascoigne - and other Embassy and Consular Staff, the Allied Council for Japan and the UK Liaison Mission in Japan. There is excellent material from the British and Commonwealth perspective on:

• The Occupation of Japan and SCAP Headquarters.
• Underground anti-democratic forces in Japan.
• Korea and Russia.
• Japan's relations with Australia.
• The Black Market in Japan.
• The economy and reconstruction in Japan.
• Japanese and Korean war criminals.
• The social welfare of women.
• Shell Oil Company interests in Japan.
• Commonwealth Meetings in Tokyo.
• Leading Personalities in Japan in 1956.