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Paths Diverging? The Next Decade in the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance » Read Now
by William E. Rapp. 92 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Sharing World Leadership? A New Era for America & Japan » Read Now
by John H. Makin, Donald C. Hellmann. 274 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1986 , Local Government in Japan 1986 , Asian Political...Posture" 1987 and "The U.S. Defense Posture in East Asia...Department of International Relations, University of...
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The Eagle and the Rising Sun: America and Japan in the Twentieth Century » Read Now
by John K. Emmerson, Harrison M. Holland. 181 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Japan to deny us the use of its...States. A security relationship that has meant...merely providing Japan a "free ride...bases used by U.S. military forces...future of the...
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Japan Challenges America: Managing an Alliance in Crisis » Read Now
by Harrison M. Holland. 233 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...implying that good relations with Japan are desirable...Japanese respond to U.S. urgings for...Japan expect of us? How will the...United States-Japan relations, opening...
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Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle » Read Now
by Victor D. Cha. 373 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been two of the most critical pillars of peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region for the past thirty years. At the same time, their relationship has fluctuated markedly and unpredictably. Despite the existence of a common ally in the...
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Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been two of the most critical pillars of peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region for the past thirty years. At the same time, their relationship has fluctuated markedly and unpredictably. Despite the existence of a common ally in the United States and common security threats from the former Soviet Union, China, and North Korea, bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea have been persistently marred by friction.
In the first in-depth study of this puzzling relationship in over fifteen years, the author compares the commonly accepted explanation for this relationship -- historical enmity -- with one that focuses on policies of the United States as the key driver of Japan-ROK relations. He finds that while history and emotion certainly affect the ways in which Japanese and Koreans regard each other, cooperation and dissension in the relationship are better understood through what he calls a "quasi-alliance" model: two states that remain unallied but have a third party as a common ally.
This model finds that the "normal" state of Japan-ROK relations is characterized by friction that stems not only from history, but also from fundamental asymmetries in Japanese and Korean expectations of support from each other. The author shows, however, that in periods when the American defense commitment to the region is weak, Japan-ROK relations exhibit significantly less contention over bilateral issues. Without the prop of U.S. assistance, the two countries are seemingly willing to overlook the usual causes of friction and to adopt a more pragmatic approach. The author discusses the effects of democratization and the post-ColdWar era on the triangular relationship, and addresses the prospects of a united Korea and its future relations with Japan, the United States, and China.
The book covers the period from 1965 to 1998 and draws on recently dec
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The Final Confrontation: Japan's Negotiations with the United States, 1941 » Read Now
by James William Morley, David A. Titus. 442 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 » Read Now
by Paul W. Schroeder. 246 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Foreign Relations, Japan, II, 387-388, 396; U.S. Department...and the U.S.S.R. on the...to improve relations." 2 The...decision for Japan. Three courses...Foreign...
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Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952 » Read Now
by Howard B. Schonberger. 348 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Japan--Foreign relations--United States...Emperor of Japan and Planning...fascination with the U.S.- Japanese...they need us to keep the...1951 of the "U.S.-Japan economic...
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Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation » Read Now
by Michael Schaller. 320 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The relationship between the United States and Japan is torn by contrary impulses. We face each other across the Pacific as friends and allies, as the two most powerful economies in the world--and as suspicious rivals. Americans admire the industry of the Japanese, but we resent the huge trade...
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The relationship between the United States and Japan is torn by contrary impulses. We face each other across the Pacific as friends and allies, as the two most powerful economies in the world--and as suspicious rivals. Americans admire the industry of the Japanese, but we resent the huge trade deficit that has developed between us, due to what we consider to be unfair trade practices and "unlevel playing fields." Now, in Altered States, historian Michael Schaller strips away the stereotypes and misinformation clouding American perceptions of Japan, providing the historical background that helps us make sense of this important relationship. Here is an eye-opening history of U.S.-Japan relations from the end of World War II to the present, revealing its rich depths and startling complexities. Perhaps Schaller's most startling revelation is that modern Japan is what we made it--that most of what we criticize in Japan's behavior today stems directly from U.S. policy in the 1950s. Indeed, as the book shows, for seven years after the end of the war, our occupational forces exerted enormous influence over the shape and direction of Japan's economic future. Stunned by the Communist victory in China and the outbreak of war in Korea, and fearful that Japan might form ties with Mao's China, the U.S. encouraged the rapid development of the Japanese economy, protecting the huge industrial conglomerates and creating new bureaucracies to direct growth. Thus Japan's government-guided, export-driven economy was nurtured by our own policy. Moreover, the United States fretted about Japan's economic weakness--that they would become dependent on us--and sought to expand Tokyo's access to markets in the very areas it had just tried to conquer, the old Co Prosperity Sphere. Schaller documents how, as the Cold War deepened throughout the 1950s, Washington showered money on what it saw as the keystone of the eastern shore of Asia, working assiduously to expand the Japanese economy and, in fact, worrying intensely over the American trade surplus. Fear of Japanese instability ran so deep that Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson approved secret financial help to Japanese conservative politicians, some of whom had been accused of war crimes against Americans. Then came the 1960s, and the surplus faded into a deficit. The book reveals how Washington's involvement in Vietnam provided the Japanese government with political cover for quietly pursuing a more independent course. Even in the 1970s, however, with America's one time ward turned into an economic powerhouse, the Nixon administration failed to pay much attention to Tokyo. Schaller shows that Kissinger openly preferred the more charismatic company of Zhou Enlai to that of Japanese technocrats, while economics bored him. The United States almost missed the fact that Japan had developed into a country that could say no, and very loudly. Michael Schaller has won widespread acclaim for his earlier books on U. S. relations with Asia. His fearless judgments, his fluid pen, his depth of knowledge and research have all lifted him to the front rank of historians writing today. In Altered States, he illuminates the most important, and troubled, relationship in the world in a work certain to cement his reputation.
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America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960 » Read Now
by Aaron Forsberg. 324 pgs.

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In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War. His fresh interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in the wider world during the 1950s.
Drawing on a...
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In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War. His fresh interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in the wider world during the 1950s.
Drawing on a wealth of recently released American, British, and Japanese archival records, Forsberg demonstrates that American Cold War strategy and the U.S. commitment to liberal trade played a central role in promoting Japanese economic welfare and in forging the economic relationship between Japan and the United States. The price of economic opportunity and interdependence, however, was a strong undercurrent of mutual frustration, as patterns of conflict and compromise over trade, investment, and relations with China continued to characterize the postwar U.S.-Japanese relationship.
Forsberg's emphasis on the dynamic interaction of Cold War strategy, the business environment, and Japanese development challenges "revisionist" interpretations of Japan's success. In exploring the complex origins of the U.S.-led international economy that has outlasted the Cold War, Forsberg refutes the claim that the U.S. government sacrificed American commercial interests in favor of its military partnership with Japan.
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Hands across the Sea? U.S.-Japan Relations, 1961-1981 » Read Now
by Timothy P. Maga. 190 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...proper, workable U.S.-Japan relations meant to two very...this will buy us friends, if they...becoming "more like us." 36 The old...new, trustworthy Japan. That did...
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Japan and the United States, 1853-1921 » Read Now
by Payson J. Treat. 310 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of foreign relations cited as one...Western world. In Japan there were those...Yokohama on the U.S. S.S. "Powhatan...too much of Japan in those early...international...
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The Black Ship Scroll: An Account of the Perry Expedition at Shimoda in 1854 and the Lively Beginnings of People-to-People Relations between Japan & America » Read Now
by Oliver Statler. 80 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Japan-American Diplomatic Relations in the Meiji-Taisho Era » Read Now
by Hikomatsu Kamikawa. 462 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...International Relations between Japan and the United...Chapter III. The U.S.-Japanese Treaty...Chapter IV. The U.S.-Japanese Entente...The Diplomatic Relations between...
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Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations during World War I » Read Now
by Noriko Kawamura. 173 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Although events in East Asia were a sideshow in the great drama of the First World War, what happened there shattered the accord between Japan and the United States. This book pursues the two-fold question of how and why U.S.-Japanese tensions developed into antagonism during the war by inquiring...
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Although events in East Asia were a sideshow in the great drama of the First World War, what happened there shattered the accord between Japan and the United States. This book pursues the two-fold question of how and why U.S.-Japanese tensions developed into antagonism during the war by inquiring into the historical sources of both sides. Kawamura explains this complex phenomenon by looking at various factors: conflicts of national interests--geopolitical and economic; perceptual problems such as miscommunication, miscalculation, and mistrust; and, most important of all, incompatible approaches to foreign policy. America's universalism and the unilateralism inherent in Wilsonian idealistic internationalism clashed with Japan's particularistic regionalism and the pluralism that derived from its strong sense of racial identity and anti-Western nationalistic sentiments.
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Japan-U.S. Relations toward the 21st Century, in Social Justice » Read Now
by Gregory Shank. 12 pgs.

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...Japan-U.S. relations toward the 21st century...low priority in Washington. Relations with Japan, the strongest U.S. ally in Asia after World...will sketch the probable...