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JAPAN IN THE AMERICAN CENTURY
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No nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan.
President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender
led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive
international reconstruction of another nation in modern history. Japan in the
American Century examines how Japan, with its deeply conservative heritage,
responded to the imposition of a new liberal order.
The price Japan paid to end the occupation was a cold war alliance with the
United States that ensured America's dominance in the region. Still traumatized
by its wartime experience, Japan developed a grand strategy of dependence on
U.S. security guarantees so that the nation could concentrate on economic
growth. Yet from the start, despite American expectations, Japan reworked the
American reforms to fit its own circumstances and cultural preferences,
fashioning distinctively Japanese variations on capitalism, democracy, and
social institutions.
Today, with the postwar world order in retreat, Japan is undergoing a sea change
in its foreign policy, returning to an activist, independent role in global
politics not seen since 1945. Distilling a lifetime of work on Japan and the
United States, Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of the two nations'
relationship at a time when the character of that alliance is changing. Japan
has begun to pull free from the constraints established after World War II, with
repercussions for its relations with the United States and its role in Asian
geopolitics.
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Product Details
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$39.00
Publisher
Belknap Press
Publish Date
October 15, 2018
Pages
472
Dimensions
6.4 X 9.3 X 1.3 inches | 1.9 pounds
Language
English
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BISAC Categories:
Asia - Japan
Military - World War II
Modern - 20th Century
Comparative Politics
International Relations - General
World - Asian
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About the Author
Kenneth B. Pyle is Henry M. Jackson Professor Emeritus of History and
International Studies at the University of Washington and the author of Japan
Rising ("Outstanding," The Economist) and the classic textbook The Making of
Modern Japan. He was for many years director of the Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies at the University of Washington. The founding president of
the National Bureau of Asian Research, Pyle received the Order of the Rising
Sun, Japan's most prestigious honor, and created the Journal of Japanese
Studies, the most important journal in the field.
Reviews
A brilliant, elegantly written work destined to become one of the essential
books on United States-Japan relations. It reflects Pyle's broad knowledge and
lifelong effort to bring coherence to the grand strategy of the United States
since its rise as a dominant power in Asia and the consequences of that strategy
for both nations.--Ezra F. Vogel, author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation
of China
This is a fine book, intelligent and necessary. Pyle, a distinguished historian
of modern Japan, writes in a subtle and supple way, with an unerring sense of
balance. His careful linking of the unconditional surrender demand by the U.S.
to the character of the Japanese postwar settlement is fresh and provocative. I
hope those who make American policy toward Japan read what he has to
say.--Andrew Barshay, author of The Gods Left First: The Captivity and
Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945-1956
In a book that devotes equal space to the view from Japan and the U.S., [Pyle]
shows equal discernment in recounting the ways in which each country came to
collide and then cohabit with the other over the last hundred years. On each
side Pyle uncovers things missed by a regiment of prior historians.--Edward
Luttwak "London Review of Books" (4/4/2019 12:00:00 AM)
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