The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer
Online ISSN : 2423-8546
Print ISSN : 2423-8538
ISSN-L : 2423-8538
Volume 2019, Issue 1
Displaying 1-6 of 6 articles from this issue
  • [in Japanese]
    2019 Volume 2019 Issue 1 Pages 1-2
    Published: January 21, 2019
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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  • Britain and the Regulation of Exports to the Middle East
    DANIEL STAHL
    2019 Volume 2019 Issue 1 Pages 3-19
    Published: January 21, 2019
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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    During the two decades following World War I, the regulation of the arms trade by international law was a major issue in international relations. After 1945, nothing was done to reactivate the efforts of the interwar period. Instead, the arms-producing powers turned to informal, legally non-binding agreements. The article asks how this shift away from international law towards informal methods of coordination can be explained by focusing on Britain as one of the most important arms suppliers, and on the Middle East as a recipient, from the interwar period until the end of the 1960s. The article argues that the process of decolonization was a crucial development leading to the decline of arms trade limitations.
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  • An Analysis of Documents of the Trials for a "Case of Bribery by High Officials of the Japanese Navy"
    BUNJI NAGURA
    2019 Volume 2019 Issue 1 Pages 21-42
    Published: January 21, 2019
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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    The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the Siemens Affairs by analysing documents of the trials for a case of bribery by high officials of the Japanese Navy. The Siemens Affairs comprised a major international bribery case involving a warship and munitions. There were two incidents. One was the <Siemens-Richter incident<, which came to light in the latter of January, 1914, immediately after the detection by the Reuter dispatch. The other was the larger <Vickers-Kongo incident< (of bribery by high Naval officials involved in the ordering of the large battleship Kongo), which was clarified after the investigation. The written judgement and published documents of the trials of the Siemens Affairs have been used. This paper examines the documents of the public trial by the Tokyo District Court, which had been closed. These trial documents are classified in two groups. Some are <written apologies for the naval-bribery affairs< while the others are <documents of problems on the warship<. The main contents of the former are questions to persons involved in the Reuters News Agency and the Siemens Company in relation to the <Siemens-Richter case<, while the contents of the latter comprise various hearing documents on the <Vickers-Kongo case<, mainly from naval officers and the directors of Mitsui Bussan. We find that the content of the testimonies is diverse, especially in the latter case. We can find that the role of Yamamoto Jotaro, one of three managing directors of Mitsui Bussan, was important, as was that of Matsuo Tsurutaro, one of the directors involved in ordering the battleship Kongo from Vickers.
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  • Mystery and Elucidation on the Construction of the Third Shipway of the Kure Naval Arsenal
    TAKESHI CHIDA
    2019 Volume 2019 Issue 1 Pages 43-65
    Published: January 21, 2019
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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    My own book, entitled The Establishment of the Kure Naval Arsenal, was published in 2018. I tried to substantiate the overall history in detail, without making a convenient hypothesis, and to describe matters logically and legitimately. With this intention, my book applied the "theory of the arms transfer"as the analytical method in order to study the process of arms production from the perspective of arms transfer. It is very fortunate that there were not only favourable comments but also critical reviews of my book. The former comments regarded the detailed elucidation of the overall history of the Kure Naval Arsenal, while the latter reviews were mainly on the development of the esoteric logic of arms transfer. The purpose of this paper is to give a clear explanation of the logical development in my book and to present the framework of my research by responding to the above-mentioned reviews. This paper focuses on the construction of the third shipway, which has been regarded as the greatest mystery in the history of the Kure Naval Arsenal, and tries to clarify the background of the mystery by means of an approach that integrates the historical documents with the perspective of arms transfer. Global technology transfer includes the following processes: (1) a navy expansion plan in the recipient country of the arms transfer; (2) ordering arms for the overseas armament companies; (3) dispatching engineers to the vender and the expansion of the naval arsenal; (4) diffusion of technology from the dispatched engineers to the native craftsmen through modification and repair of the imported arms; (5) manufacture of arms of the same type as the imported arms in the leading arsenal; and (6) technology transfer to other domestic arsenals and companies.
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  • TAMARA ENOMOTO
    2019 Volume 2019 Issue 1 Pages 67-86
    Published: January 21, 2019
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    Since the 1990s, there has been a proliferation of initiatives to create regional and ‘global’ instruments that establish common criteria for the assessment of arms transfer licenses; this culminated in 2013 with the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Since 2015, a Conference of States Parties (CSP) to the ATT has been held annually, and the Fifth Conference of States Parties (CSP5) will be held in Switzerland in August 2019. While research abounds on the negotiation processes since the 1990s of conventional arms control agreements and the roles of governmental and nongovernmental actors in these negotiations, there is a striking absence of research on the implications of post-adoption processes and the roles of a wide range of actors involved in these processes. This article seeks to analyse the key issues of the Third and Fourth CSPs, including possible violations of the treaty by state parties, reporting mechanisms and sponsorship programmes for participation in a CSPs and related meetings. As a participant of the CSP process, the author hopes to record these historic moments and provide a basis for policy debates and future research on and evaluation of this process.
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  • [in Japanese]
    2019 Volume 2019 Issue 1 Pages 87-90
    Published: January 21, 2019
    Released on J-STAGE: January 21, 2025
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