Why trade would not prevent an Anglo-Japanese war

Britain and Japan were meaningful trading partners without being each other's dominant commercial relationship. The British attitude is summarized as trading in peacetime, fighting when policy required it, and resuming trade after peace returned. Commerce therefore created interests to weigh rather than an automatic veto on war. In the scenario, the seizure of a British-flagged ship and the ensuing naval attacks could override those interests. The brief aside adds an economic limit to arguments that interdependence alone would prevent escalation.