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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789083403321

Autore

Nomura Kichisaburō <1877-1964.>

Titolo

The occupation-era correspondence of Kichisaburo Nomura / compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Peter Mauch ; [foreword by James E. Auer]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Folkestone, Kent, UK : , : Global Oriental, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-48617-9

1-283-26575-3

9786612486173

9786613265753

90-04-21292-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2010

Altri autori (Persone)

AuerJames E

MauchPeter (Peter Cameron)

Disciplina

952

952.044

Soggetti

Admirals - Japan

Diplomats - Japan

Japan Foreign relations United States Sources

Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952 Sources

United States Foreign relations Japan Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / P. Mauch -- Introduction / P. Mauch -- Part I. The Early Occupation Period, 1945–1947 / P. Mauch -- Part 2. The Cold War And Japan’s Economic Revival, 1948 / P. Mauch -- Part 3. The Cold War And Japanese Security, January 1949–May 1950 / P. Mauch -- Part 4. The Korean War And Japanese Security, June 1950–August 1951 / P. Mauch -- Part 5. Japanese Independence And Defensibility, September 1951–December 1952 / P. Mauch -- Notes / P. Mauch -- Bibliography / P. Mauch -- Index / P. Mauch.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is based on the recent discovery of the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura – Japanese admiral, one-time foreign minister, pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and “spiritual



godfather” of postwar Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force. The volume reproduces Nomura’s occupation-era correspondence with his American friends and associates, including Navy Secretary Daniel Kimball, SCAP Political Advisor William Sebald, former ambassadors William Castle and Joseph Grew, Army and Navy Journal owner John Callan O’Laughlin, as well as Admirals William Pratt, Arleigh Burke, Charles Turner Joy, Ralph Oftsie, and Harold Martin. The correspondence is extraordinarily revealing, and provides rich insights into domestic conditions in occupied Japan, U.S. policies toward occupied Japan, the Cold War in Asia, and Japan’s eventual rearmament. In this way, the book enables readers to confront for themselves a hitherto largely neglected attempt at defining and cementing the post-WWII Japanese-U.S. partnership.