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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966943503321

Autore

Schaller Michael <1947->

Titolo

The American occupation of Japan : the origins of the cold war in Asia / / Michael Schaller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1985

ISBN

1-280-44976-4

0-19-987884-6

0-19-802063-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

327.73052

Soggetti

International relations

Japan Foreign relations United States

Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Southeast Asia Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations 1945-1953

United States Foreign relations Japan

United States Foreign relations Southeast Asia

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 (p. 337-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. The End of the Pacific War; 2. Remaking Japan, 1945 to 1948; 3. Northeast Asia and the Pacific, 1945 to 1947; 4. Reinterpeting the Postwar World; 5. An Aborted Treaty; 6. The Conservative Response to Liberal Reform; 7. Setting a New Course; 8. Regional Economic Integration and the Rise of Southeast Asia; 9. The Peace Treaty: Trying Again; 10. Japanese Recovery Prospects in the Wake of China's Revolution; 11. NSC 48 and the Renewed Debate over Asian Communism; 12. Containment and Recovery in Japan and Southeast Asia; 13. A Commitment to Vietnam

14. Japan and the Rekindled Crisis with China15. At War in Asia; 16. Afterward: The Workshop of Asia; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this novel and intriguing book, Michael Schaller traces the origins of the Cold War in Asia to the postwar occupation of Japan by U.S. troops.



Determined to secure Japan as a bulwark against both Soviet expansion and Asian revolution, the U.S. instituted ambitious social and economic reforms under the direction of the flamboyant Occupation Commander, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur was later denounced by the Truman Administration as a ""bunko artist"" who had wrecked Japan's economy and opened it to Communist influence, and power was shifted to Japan's old elite. Cut off from its forme