Reminder : 100 years since the Anglo-Japanese defence arrangement fell apart

[NMaude]

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/defense-security/20250116-233414/

Hasn't it been about 100 years since the previous Anglo-Japanese defence arrangement fell apart?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Hasn't it been about 100 years since the previous Anglo-Japanese defence arrangement fell apart?

Thanks to one of the U.S. State Department's 'cunning plans', if I recall correctly.

 

[WatcherZero]

Americans made it a requirement for their signing of the Washington Treaty that the alliance be dissolved as the US was worried about UK and Japan ganging up on them.