American Occupation of Japan : The Origins of the Cold War in Asia.
Title:
American Occupation of Japan : The Origins of the Cold War in Asia.
Author:
Schaller, Michael.
ISBN:
9780198020639
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (513 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 The End of the Pacific War -- 2 Remaking Japan, 1945 to 1948 -- 3 Northeast Asia and the Pacific, 1945 to 1947 -- 4 Reinterpreting 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 China -- 15 At War in Asia -- 16 Afterward: the Workshop of Asia -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Footnotes -- Fn-Note-1 -- Fn-Note-2 -- Fn-Note-3 -- Fn-Note-4 -- Fn-Note-5 -- Fn-Note-6 -- Fn-Note-7 -- Fn-Note-8 -- Fn-Note-9 -- Fn-Note-10 -- Fn-Note-11 -- Fn-Note-12 -- Fn-Note-13 -- Fn-Note-14 -- Fn-Note-15 -- Fn-Note-16 -- Fn-Note-17 -- Fn-Note-18 -- Fn-Note-19 -- Fn-Note-20 -- Fn-Note-21 -- Fn-Note-22 -- Fn-Note-23 -- Fn-Note-24.
Abstract:
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 former trading partners, which were now all Communist-controlled, Japan, with U.S. backing, turned its attention to the rich but unstable Southeast Asian states. The stage was thus set for U.S. intervention in China, Korea, and Vietnam.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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