Acknowledgments and Notes
We would like to express our gratitude to all the libraries and archives, both public and
private, in the many countries whose holdings we have utilized for the present book.
We owe especial gratitude to the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vi-
enna, Austria, whose fellowship allowed one of us (Kuromiya) to work on this project.
In addition, we have bene ted greatly from theNowy Prometeuszgroup in Poland with
which we have been working for some years. Ester Ham of Indiana University kindly
translated Dutch documents into English. Dr. Alexander Marshall of the University of
Glasgow generously answered our queries. We are also indebted to anonymous review-
ers for helpful comments which we took into consideration in revising the manuscript.
Dr. Jan Ryder has carefully edited the manuscript.
The Japanese name order, the surname followed by the given name, causes much
confusion in literature. To avoid confusion, we have adopted the Western order, the
given name followed by the last name, for example Giichi Tanaka, instead of Tanaka
Giichi. Although this sounds odd to the Japanese ear, we have consistently adhered to
the Western norm.
We have tried to avoid acronyms except for some archival names:
AMAE: Archives du ministère des Aaires étrangères, Paris, France
AVP: Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii, Moscow, Russia
BBKT: Boeish ̄ o B ̄ oei Kenky ̄ ̄ujo Toshokan, Tokyo, Japan
BDIC: Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine, Nanterre, France
CAW: Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe, Warsaw, Poland
CHAN: Centre historique des archives nationales, Paris, France
GARF: Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii, Moscow, Russia
GGSK: Gaimusho Gaik ̄ ̄o Shiryo Kan, Tokyo, Japan ̄
GSCHA: Georgian State Central Historical Archive, Tbilisi, Georgia
HHStA, PA: Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Politisches Archiv, Vienna, Austria
JACAR: Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
NA: National Archives, Kew, UK
NARA: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, USA
RGASPI: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii, Moscow, Russia