Tolerance, suspicion, and hostility changing U.S. attitudes toward the Japanese communist movement, 1944-1947

Title:

Author:

Oinas-Kukkonen, Henry, 1964-

ISBN:

9780313052415

Personal Author:

Oinas-Kukkonen, Henry, 1964-

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 242 p.) : ill., map.

Series:

Contributions to the study of world history, no. 101

Contributions to the study of world history ; no. 101.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Pre-Occupation "Positive Policy"; 2. The Period of Tolerance, 1945-1946; 3. Increasing Suspicion from Early 1946 Onwards; 4. Derogatory Communists Led by a Foreign Power; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Sources and Bibliography; Index.

Abstract:

Over the course of the American Occupation of Japan, the U.S. attitude toward the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) gradually shifted from one of friendly cooperation to one of mutual opposition. This new study examines the initial approach toward communism in Japan; internal and external factors that affected American attitudes; the various phases of the relationship; and how Japan ultimately became a democratic nation. Oinas-Kukkonen investigates American information gathering techniques used at the time to determine possible links with the Soviet Union. He also discusses the possibility that N.

Corporate Subject:

Subject Term:

Geschichte 1944-1947.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.

Geographic Term:

Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.

Japan -- Foreign public opinion, American.