Japan in the American Century / / Kenneth B. Pyle.

No nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to power than Japan. The price paid to end the most intrusive reconstruction of a nation in modern history was a cold war alliance with the U.S. that ensured American dominance in the region. Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of this relati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: An Unnatural Intimacy
  • 1. Two Rising Powers
  • 2. Unconditional Surrender Policy
  • 3. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
  • 4. An American Revolution in Japan
  • 5. The Subordination of Japan
  • 6. For the Soul of Japan
  • 7. A Peculiar Alliance
  • 8. Competing Capitalisms
  • 9. Japan’s Nonconvergent Society
  • 10. Democracy in Japan
  • 11. Japan in the Twilight of the American Century
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index