Professor Nishimura examines the role of British banks in promoting Chinese trade and, more broadly, the relationship between foreign banks and traditional Chinese banking institutions in modernizing the local economy. Dr Yasutomi who is already well-known for his study Manshukoku no kinyu...

Professor Meaney visited the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines during the winter months of 1999 and conducted research on the position of Japan in the formulation of Australian policy towards the British Commonwealth and the United States. This paper...

A Suntory-Toyota Symposium was held at the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines on Friday, 9 December 1994. There were two speakers at the symposium: Professor Shigeru Akita of Osaka University of Foreign Studies is currently academic visitor at the School of Oriental and...

At a gathering of Southeast Asian experts at the Suntory-Toyota Centre on 31 May 1991 three papers were given on aspects of Thai-Japanese and Anglo-Thai relations. Dr Brailey's paper ranged widely over the field from 1868-1941, though it concentrated on the period when Satow was minister in...

Mitter: China emerged from the Korean War as a more confident actor in the international order. The paper considers three wider contexts within which China's experience of the Korean War should be considered: as part of a spectrum of 20th century wars, as part of a Cold War binarism in politics,...

This paper covers a number of symposia held in the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines during the academic year 1992-3. The papers assembled here are presented in the order in which they were given. In January 1993 Dr S. Lone gave a paper on the Japanese...