Masami Kimura

Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Masami Kimura reconsiders postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on "modernization" ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s-early 1950s. Kimura identifies parallel groups of modernist thinkers in America and Japan and explores different strands of thought within an evolving political environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781032557120
• ISBN-10: 1032557125
• Artikelnr.: 70149915

Autorenporträt

Masami Kimura is Lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her primary research area is U.S.-Japan relations, and her publications include "American Asia Experts, Liberal Internationalism, and the Occupation of Japan: Transcending Cold War Politics and Historiography," Journal of American-East Asian Relations 21, no. 3 (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Japan's "Failed Modernization" and the Origins of
Militarism 1. American Views of Japan and Rationales for Occupation Reform
2. Japanese Analyses of Problems with Japanese Democracy Part II
Constitutional Reform as Modernization 3. Emperorship Reformed or
Abolished? 4. Democratized Constitutional Monarchy as Middle Ground Part
III Internationalist Visions for Post-Occupation Japan 5. America's Cold
War and Japan's Place in a New Asian Order 6. Japan's Diverging
Internationalist Paths 7. Conclusion