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Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

By: Yukiko Koshiro

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Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

By: Yukiko Koshiro

The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two former enemies could collaborate in creating democracy in postwar Japan. In the 1980s, however, when Japan increased its investment in the American market, the world witnessed a revival of the rhetoric of U.S.-Japanese racial confrontation. Koshiro argues that this perceived economic aggression awoke the dormant racism that lay beneath the deceptively smooth cooperation between the two cultures. This pathbreaking study is the first to explore the issue of racism in U.S.-Japanese relations. With access to unexplored sources in both Japanese and English, Koshiro is able to create a truly international and cross-cultural study of history and international relations.

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Columbia University Press

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023111348X

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Imperial Eclipse

Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945

By: Yukiko Koshiro

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Imperial Eclipse

Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945

By: Yukiko Koshiro

The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's capitulation, and its recasting as the western shore of an American ocean. But in the decades leading up to World War II and over the course of the conflict, Japan's leaders and citizens were as deeply concerned about continental Asia-and the Soviet Union, in particular-as they were about the Pacific theater and the United States. In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played in Japan's diplomatic and military thinking from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the war. Through unprecedented archival research, Koshiro has located documents and reports expunged from the files of the Japanese Cabinet, ministries of Foreign Affairs and War, and Imperial Headquarters, allowing her to reconstruct Japan's official thinking about its plans for continental Asia. She brings to light new information on the assumptions and resulting plans that Japan's leaders made as military defeat became increasingly certain and the Soviet Union slowly moved to declare war on Japan (which it finally did on August 8, two days after Hiroshima). She also describes Japanese attitudes toward Russia in the prewar years, highlighting the attractions of communism and the treatment of Russians in the Japanese empire; and she traces imperial attitudes toward Korea and China throughout this period. Koshiro's book offers a balanced and comprehensive account of imperial Japan's global ambitions.

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Cornell University Press

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0801467756

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Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

By: Yukiko Koshiro

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Imperial Eclipse

Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945

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Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945

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Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan

The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934

By: Yukiko Fukasaku

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Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan

The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934

By: Yukiko Fukasaku

This book aims to discredit the myth that has the `unique cultural traits' of the Japanese as the key to the country's success, arguing that the more realisable foundation of long-term investment in training and research is responsible. The book looks at the development of Japan in the pre-War period. Yukiko Fukusaku sees the achievements of this period as central to the present competitiveness of the country's industrial technology. She uses the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard as a case study, looking at technological innovation and training as the keys to long-term stability and economic success. The book has implications for industrial development worldwide. Japan's starting point over a century ago was similar to the present conditions of many developing countries and the book's emphasis on the acquisition of better skills as a key to development is as relevant to Europe and America as it is to the Third World.

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Routledge

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1134964013

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9781134964017

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Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

Imperial Eclipse

Imperial Eclipse

Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

Imperial Eclipse

Imperial Eclipse

Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan

Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan

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