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2009

After just one year of the Spanish Civil War, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident led to the Sino-Japanese War, both conflicts remaining for two years as daily reminders of the world conflicts of the time. This article attempts to emphasize the importance of the coincidence in time of those conflicts in delimiting each bloc especially through a decision that was particularly divisive to the Japanese government, such as the recognition of Franco’s rebel government after the outbreak of the war in China. Efforts by Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota Kōki to avoid a decision that would further Japan’s pro-Axis drift, portray the lines of division in the government. His maneuvers progressively failed, including the November 1937 proposal of negotiations including the recognition of Manchukuo, accepted first by Franco’s Spain, later by Italy and finally by Germans. The article emphasizes the role of Italy in Asia, the reasons of for Spanish actions and the aims of other key persons in this period, such as Prime Minister Konoe, post-war leader Yoshida Shigeru or Ishihara Kanji, the Officer who masterminded the 1931 Invasion of Manchuria

JAPAN AND THE AXIS, 1937-8: Recognition of the Franco Regime and Manchukuo,

Journal of Contemporary History. ISSN 0022-0094.

SAGE Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. Vol 44 (3), 427-443.

DOI: 10.1177/0022009409104117

2008

“Departure from Asia: Spain in the Philippines and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” in Nation and conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in honor of Stanley G. Payne

Ed. by Brian D. Bunk, Sasha D. Pack and Carl-Gustaff Scott ISBN 978-1-893311-76-3

Madison, WI: Parallel Press, 2008, pp. 103-122.

http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu

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2007

Iberians were the first people in Europe to interact directly with Siam. Centuries elapsed between the time the first information about Siam was received in the Iberian Peninsula and the period when its rulers perceived this Asian territory in a more or less coherent framework. This work studies the changes in perceptions of the Kingdom of Siam as it evolved from the earliest mythical references, in a long process that was neither uniform nor reliant merely on the receipt of data. Focusing on these early perceptions, this study notes the Iberians’ different reactions to this new knowledge, the roles of individuals, and how the parallel processes of their own budding national identities affected the outcome. Despite Lisbon and Madrid's different strategies for their presence in Asia, the wilful cooperation of individuals provided a chance to join forces in a common target resulting in the, albeit failed, expeditions of conquest to Cambodia in the 1590’s. Learning who the Siamese, Burmese or Malays were and how they differed from each other also helped to further expansionism.

"The Castilians discover Siam: Changing Visions and Self-Discovery"

The Journal of the Siam Society (JSS), founded 1904, 2007, vol.95: 1-23.

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2005

Relations between Spain and Japan were specially important between 1937 and 1945, on account of the needs of propaganda in this age of war: the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, World War II and the Pacific War all took place during this period. The anti-communist alliance resulted in interesting political configurations during the early years. Later, Spain became the neutral country that rendered the greater assistance to the Japanese war effort against the United States, by assuming the representation of Japanese subjects in the majority of American nations, and by allowing the formation of a network of espionage that focused upon the United States, amongst other aspects of this collaboration, once the war in the Pacific broke put. When the conflict ended, in March 1945, the government of General Francisco Franco pondered about declaring war to Japan, without actually doing so due to Allied rejection. The last part of this study is dedicated to analysing the brusque change in Spain and Japan’s image of each other, utilising concepts about perceptions in International Relations as well as theories about Orientalism

Franco’s Spain and the Japanese Empire (1937-45)

Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies, ISSN 0874-8438

vols. 10/11 (June-Dec 2005): 243-262

Monsignor Olano, the last Spanish bishop in Guam (1933-45), presided a period of intense political disputes, ordered to exile from the island both in 1941 and in 1945. Japanese, Spaniards and Americans pulled strings through him, both during the Pacific war and before, but the whereabouts of the prelate relate also to the attempts to influence the lives of Guamese. Olano and the Catholic church was perceived as a way the Chamorro in Guam historically expressed their agency and efforts were done by the foreign powers in order to reduce it. This article analyzes the issue mostly through Spanish documentation, at different archives.

Monsignor Olano, a Bishop in World War II

Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences http://marshall.csu.edu.au/MJHSS/ ISSN 1449-7336

Letao Publishing, Albury, Australia, Charles Sturt University., Vol. 4, N. 2 (2005): 85-101

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2001

Editor’s Preface

The Philippine Revolution of 1896. Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times, Manila, Ateneo de Manila University Press, pp. Vii-xx

1999

Spanish Companies in the Philippines after the Revolution

in The Philippine Revolution and Beyond, (ed. Elmer A. Ordoñez) (Manila, National Centennial Commission). Vol. 2: 999-1011.

1998

Spain in the Pacific

The Pacific Islands: The Spanish Legacy, Madrid: Lumwerg, pp. 27-35

Ending the priority of private links: The Spanish Presence in the Far East around 1945

Cuadernos de Historia Manila, Instituto Cervantes Vol. 1, pp. 177-190.

1997

Previously, the most accepted belief was the Spanish language in the Philippines gradually disappeared as the educated population during the Spanish period passed away. This generalization, I think must be reevaluated. This process of withering away of the Spanish language was not as gradual as was supposed and, in fact, the Spanish language was relatively well maintained during the first four decades after the Philippine Revolution. This article covers the period from the departure of the last Spanish governor in Manila to the first years of the Independence of the Archipelago, when some laws were passed by the Philippine Senate implementing a policy which required the compulsory teaching of the Spanish language in the schools

Sociolinguistics ; Linguistic policy ; Linguistic regulation ; Teaching Language ; Education ; Cultural Context ; Linguistic identity

“Spanish Language in the Philippines: 1900-1940

Philippine Studies, ISSN 0031-7837, vol. 45 (1): 94-107.

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1995

Spanish Falange in the Philippines, 1936-1945

Philippine Studies (Manila),

Ateneo de Manila University, Volume 43, 1, First Quarter, pp.3-27

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The Spanish Culture in the Pacific after 1898

Messy Entanglements. The papers of the 10^th Pacific History Association Conference. Tarawa. Kiribati. Alaima Talu & Max Quanchi (eds.). Brisbane: Pacific History Association, pp.173-179

1991

Representation of Japanese Interests in American countries during the Pacific War

in Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, No. XXXVI, The Tôho Gakkai (The Institute of Eastern Culture), pp. 154-155.

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