British official press about Ito Hirobumi before concluding the English and Japanese union agreement in 1902

There is considered the attitude of the British official press to a Japanese statesman of the XIX - beginning of the XX century Ito Hirobumi. On the basis of the analysis of the material from the English newspapers Times, Daily News and others, there are revealed the positions of the capital press considering Itos personality, his role in modernization of Japan and English and Japanese collaboration in the Far East.