No events of international consequences likely to bring Japan to Australia’s attention occurred before the Sino-Japanese war (1894-5). Japan had as yet shown no sign of her military power. Probably as far as Australians felt any insecurity, their anxieties centred on the expansion of European powers into the Pacific, the might of Russia and the Chinese hordes. In such conditions they were free to think of Japan chiefly as a country of cherry blossom and quaint people. Only the question of Japanese immigration which began to assume large proportions after about 1890 gave any basis for feelings of hostility.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245643 |
| Date | January 1956 |
| Creators | Sissons, David Carlisle Stanley |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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