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Naval questions were one of the major issues at the heart of Anglo-Japanese relations in the inter-war period. Between 1921 and 1936, from Washington to London, naval limitation conferences, which Admiral Togo reportedly described as ‘wars without actually exchanging shells’, were focal points of this issue. They were one of the most important and time-consuming concerns for the Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy (UN).
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Kuramatsu, T. (2003). Britain, Japan and Inter-War Naval Limitation, 1921–1936. In: Gow, I., Hirama, Y., Chapman, J. (eds) The Military Dimension. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378872_8
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