Abstract
Although Japan enjoyed a variety of links with Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were virtually no relations between Japanese and British trade unions before 1945. One exception was contacts between the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Japanese Seamen’s Union (JSU) during the early 1930s. However, following the outbreak of Japan’s war with China in July 1937 relations between trade unions disintegrated and there followed a boycott of Japanese goods in Britain.
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Zennihon Kaiin Kumiai (ed.), Zennihon Kaiin Kumiai Katsudo Shiryoshu, Part I, 1986, pp. 90–2. Regarding the JSU see Numata Inejiro and Sasaki Hiroshi, Kaiin Kumiai no Soshiki to Dantai Kosho, (Tokyo: Nihon Hyoronsha, 1966), pp. 1–34.
Arthur Clegg, Aid China 1937–1949: a Memoir of a Forgotten Campaign (Beijing: New World Press, 1989), p. 35.
Regarding the boycott movement in Australia, see Derek MacDougall, ‘The Australian Labour Movement and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1939’, in Labour History (Australia), no. 33, November 1977.
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Matsumura, T. (2002). Anglo-Japanese Trade Union Relations Between the Wars. In: Daniels, G., Tsuzuki, C. (eds) The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations 1600–2000. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373600_15
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