The Washington Conference and East Asia, 1921－1922

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Washington Conference, which was held from November12, 1921 to February 6, 1922. In 2001, I attended an international conference, “Treaty-Bound: JapanesePolitics and International Diplomacy, 1853-Present,” sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley.This paper was submitted at that conference. As for the international conference, see my work, KokusaiSeijishi no Dōhyō: Jissenteki Nyūmon [A guide to international political history: A practical introduction](Hachioji: Chuo University Press, 2004)