Collège De France (général)

Anne ChengCollège de FranceHistoire intellectuelle de la ChineAnnée 2024-2025Conférence - Naoko Shimazu : Japan at the 1919 Paris Peace ConferenceWar and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943Naoko ShimazuProfessor and Deputy Director, Tokyo CollegeNaoko Shimazu est invitée par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition de la Pr Anne Cheng.RésuméIt is not well known that Japan fought as one of the Allied powers in the First World War, as Japan was a naval alliance partner of Britain from 1902. At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan attended it as the fifth largest great power in the world, after the United States, Britain, France and Italy, represented by high profile statesmen – Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd-George, Georges Clemenceau and Vittorio Orlando. This lecture situates Japan in the world in 1919, and what the peace conference had meant for Japanese politics and foreign policy in the 1920s and beyond. What is most striking about the Japanese participation at Paris was that it proposed