Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951: Europe
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 928
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U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
Author: Steven Kent Vogel
Publisher: Brookings Inst Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780815706304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reviews the past fifty years of the U.S.-Japan relationship and speculates about how it will evolve in the years to come.
Japan at the Crossroads
Author: Nick Kapur
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0674988485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn spring of 1960, Japan’s government passed Anpo, a revision of the postwar treaty that allows the United States to maintain a military presence in Japan. This move triggered the largest popular backlash in the nation’s modern history. These protests, Nick Kapur argues in Japan at the Crossroads, changed the evolution of Japan’s politics and culture, along with its global role. The yearlong protests of 1960 reached a climax in June, when thousands of activists stormed Japan’s National Legislature, precipitating a battle with police and yakuza thugs. Hundreds were injured and a young woman was killed. With the nation’s cohesion at stake, the Japanese government acted quickly to quell tensions and limit the recurrence of violent demonstrations. A visit by President Eisenhower was canceled and the Japanese prime minister resigned. But the rupture had long-lasting consequences that went far beyond politics and diplomacy. Kapur traces the currents of reaction and revolution that propelled Japanese democracy, labor relations, social movements, the arts, and literature in complex, often contradictory directions. His analysis helps resolve Japan’s essential paradox as a nation that is both innovative and regressive, flexible and resistant, wildly imaginative yet simultaneously wedded to tradition. As Kapur makes clear, the rest of the world cannot understand contemporary Japan and the distinct impression it has made on global politics, economics, and culture without appreciating the critical role of the “revolutionless” revolution of 1960—turbulent events that released long-buried liberal tensions while bolstering Japan’s conservative status quo.
A History of Russo-Japanese Relations
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-06-07
Total Pages: 659
ISBN-13: 9004400850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is the result of a three-year research project between eminent Russian and Japanese historians. It offers an an in-depth analysis of the history of relations between Russia and Japan from the 18th century until the present day. The format of the publication as a parallel history presents views and interpretations from Russian and Japanese perspectives that showcase the differences and the similarities in their joint history. The fourteen core sections, organized along chronological lines, provide assessments on the complex and sensitive issues of bilateral Russo-Japanese relations, including the territory problem as well as economic exchange.
Protest in Tokyo
Author: George R. Packard III
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1400878675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA closely documented, balanced account of the bitter political struggle in May and June of 1960 when thousands of Japanese rioted in protest against the revised treaty. William W. Lockwood calls it "one of the best case studies of Japanese political behavior ever written." Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The United States and Japan
Author: Edwin O. Reischauer
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Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780674420212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute
Author: Paul Huth
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-04-12
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 900444789X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute, Paul Huth, Sunwoong Kim, and Terence Roehrig have assembled top scholars from Japan, South Korea, and the United States to provide a balanced and comprehensive look from multiple perspectives of this long-running island dispute.
Partnership
Author: Akira Iriye
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of the "partnership" between the US and Japan (since the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the US-Japan Security Treaty in 1951) provides a valuable overview of the "state of the alliance" in 2001. Although the product of a Japanese initiative to "reinforce and renew" the relationship (and funded, in part, by the Japanese government), the book is balanced and objective and reflects the most current scholarship. The essays, each by a recognized and respected expert, cover a broad spectrum of political, defense, and economic relations, both in terms of history and contemporary relevance. Additional essays by Robert Wampler and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Dower on mutual images and perceptions are fascinating. Although the cultural dimension deserves more attention than it gets, the book offers a rich and extensive menu of offerings on the "most important bilateral relationship." This excellent text is highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate readers, as well as general readers interested in Japan and American-East Asian relations. -- Choice review, M. D. Ericson University of Maryland University College.
Japan's National Security
Author: Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan's National Security offers a detailed examination of Japan's distinctive security policy. It traces in considerable detail the evolution of Japan's approach to the economic, political and military dimensions of national structures of government as well as a particular set of relations between state and society. One of the noteworthy aspects of this book is its detailed attention to the transnational links between the Japanese and the American militaries. The book accords a special place of the interaction between the legal and social norms that have affected Japanese conceptions of national security since 1945. Japan's National Security offers an important, meticulously researched, and up-to-date perspective on the role that Japan is likely to play after the Cold War. Together with Defending the Japanese State, these two monographs analyze the structures and norms that are shaping Japan's policy on internal and national security. The specific focus is on governmental, state-society and transnational structures as well as the social and legal norms that affect the policies of Japan's police and self-defense forces.
The Senkaku Paradox
Author: Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0815736908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica needs better options for resolving potential crises In recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its allies. But what issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and either country? And how could such a conflict be contained before it took the world to the brink of thermonuclear catastrophe, as was feared during the cold war? Defense expert Michael O'Hanlon wrestles with these questions in this insightful book, setting them within the broader context of hegemonic change and today's version of great-power competition. The book examines how a local crisis could escalate into a broader and much more dangerous threat to peace. What if, for example, Russia's “little green men” seized control of a community, like Narva or an even smaller town in Estonia, now a NATO ally? Or, what if China seized one of the uninhabited Senkaku islands now claimed and administered by Japan, or imposed a partial blockade of Taiwan? Such threats are not necessarily imminent, but they are far from inconceivable. Washington could be forced to choose, in these and similar cases, between risking major war to reverse the aggression, and appeasing China or Russia in ways that could jeopardize the broader global order. O'Hanlon argues that the United States needs a better range of options for dealing with such risks to peace. He advocates “integrated deterrence,” which combines military elements with economic warfare. The military components would feature strengthened forward defenses as well as, possibly, limited military options against Russian or Chinese assets in other theaters. Economic warfare would include offensive elements, notably sanctions, as well as measures to ensure the resilience of the United States and allies against possible enemy reprisal. The goal is to deter war through a credible set of responses that are more commensurate than existing policy with the stakes involved in such scenarios.
