The Development of Postwar Japan-Australia Relations and the Impact of Declining American Hegemony
Author: Tatsuo Akaneya
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 80
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Author: Tatsuo Akaneya
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dr. Jeffrey Record
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1786252961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s decision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace? Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision for war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. Record finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of economic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the Japanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an aroused American society and overestimated their own martial prowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He believes that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that the descent of the United States and Japan into war contains lessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign policy and defense decision-makers.
Author: Narrelle Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1136970932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of ‘Japan-bashing’, from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national variants, including in Australia and Japan, to its gradual decline in the late 1990s. It is the first major book-length study of ‘Japan-bashing from a multinational perspective, one that attempts to place ‘Japan-bashing’ in its proper historical context and to examine its operation and legacy in the twenty-first century. Despite its importance in the study of discourses about Japan, as well as in understanding broader global changes in the late twentieth century and beyond, the phenomenon of ‘Japan-bashing’ remains largely neglected in published writings. Moreover, it is a far more complex phenomenon than has been assessed thus far. While, on first glance, ‘Japan-bashing’ merely seems to recall other periods in which Japan has been viewed as a dangerous ‘other’ to ‘the West’, such as the Western emphasis on the ‘yellow peril’ from the late nineteenth century as well as Allied anti-Japanese propaganda during World War II, ‘Japan-bashing’ also had its own distinctive characteristics. Moreover, while ‘Japan-bashing’ is often described as a quaint historical, rather than a pressing contemporary, phenomenon, it is actually by no means extinct. The ongoing influence of ‘Japan-bashing’ also has parallels in other ‘bashing’ phenomena, such as ‘China-bashing’. This book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students in Japanese studies and international relations.
Author: Peter Drysdale
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews developments in the relationship between Australia and Japan since 1976; predicts significant trends in the relationship in the coming decade; and, identifies initiatives which could be taken with benefit to both countries.
Author: Edith Terry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-20
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 1317468503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithin a few short months in 1997, Asian economies that had been considered not only healthy but "miraculous" suddenly fell off a precipice as investors withdrew massively first from Asian currencies and, in rapid order, from equity markets across the region. On October 27 1997, the turmoil in Asian markets spooked Wall Street in the largest single-day decline in history, a drop of 550 points. It was predicted that the Asian crash could drive the US trade deficit from $191 billion to $300 billion by 1998, creating huge new tensions in relations with some of the largest US trading partners. These wrenching changes, following a generation of success, raise numerous questions about the steps that led to the crisis, its likely outcome and the limits and constraints of "Asian capitalism". Edith Terry presents a blow-by-blow account of the crisis, beginning with the 1996 collapse of the Bangkok Bank of Commerce. In her overview, she links the fall of the Asian miracle with the theme of globalization, arguing that the crisis demonstrates the urgency of dismantling restraints to trade, investment, and financial services, and that the United States should take leadership in pushing for new and sweeping reform through the World Trade Organization and in bilateral negotiations with its trading partners. The final section of the book deals with the rise of the "Asian miracle" - how the myth was created, who created it, why it succeeded for so long - and is informed by analysis of the Japanese prototype.
Author: Deborah J. McNamara
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tatsuo Akaneya
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Japan-US Joint Declaration on Security Alliance in April 1996 gave rise to considerable constitutional controversy in Japan. This paper explains the historical background to Japan's consitutional and security issues, and, in examining the current political positions in the USA and Japan, also presents the prospects for political realignments in the region and the potential for a new Japanese foreign policy role.