Abstract:

Turkey’s most significant source in terms of pursuing the developments in the Far East was the Tokyo Ambassadorship before World War II. The annual report of Tokyo Ambassadorship is very important in this respect. The report issued by Nebil Batı, Turkey’s Ambassador in Tokyo, consist of thirteen parts. Primarily the report focuses on the internal elements determining the Japan’s foreign policy. Secondly the report touches upon the Japanese foreign policy. Observations relating to the relationship of Japan with Russia, China, the USA, England, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Turkey take place respectively in the report. According to the report Manchurian problem, in relations with China is an important place. Manchurian events that took place in recent times, again exacerbated conflicts between two countries and this issue has become a form of undeclared war between China and Japan. In the report the place was given to relations with Germany, Poland and the Netherlands ın addition to the Japanese-British relations. The Turkish-Japanese relations also take place in the report. Internal elements determining the Japan’s foreign policy is quite clearly revealed in the report. The report reveals that Turkey should follow how a path its relations with Japan. In course of this study, the Tokyo Embassy’s annual report written in early 1934 with a view to inform the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the Japanese foreign policy for the year 1933 and which is important in terms of both touching upon the Turkish-Japanese relations and studying the foreign policy of Japan before the World War II and the factors shaping such policy has been handled.

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