The Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1905 was a watershed moment for the presence of the Royal Navy in the Pacific. Although it allowed the Royal Navy to concentrate its fleets in European waters, this strategy caused resentment due to the underlying fear of the ‘Yellow Peril’, especially in the British dominions of Australia and New Zealand. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance presented some challenges to the received Edwardian racial hierarchy and the idea of British military supremacy. This article demonstrates how the ‘port town’ not only became a place of mediation where high-level international diplomacy mingled with the face-to-face experience of an alliance ‘in practice’, but also a space through which issues such as Otherness and imperial security were contested and explored.

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港口城镇与外交：二十世纪初日本海军访问英国和澳大利亚

1905 年的英日同盟是皇家海军进入太平洋的分水岭。尽管它允许皇家海军将其舰队集中在欧洲水域，但由于对“黄祸”的潜在恐惧，这一战略引起了不满，尤其是在澳大利亚和新西兰的英国领土上。英日同盟对公认的爱德华时代的种族等级制度和英国军事霸权的想法提出了一些挑战。本文展示了“港口城市”如何不仅成为高层国际外交与“实践”联盟的面对面体验交融的调解场所，而且还成为诸如“他者”和“他者”等问题的空间。帝国安全受到质疑和探索。