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Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance
By Masami Kimura
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264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance reconsiders the origins of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on “modernization” ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s–early 1950s. Mobilizing a wealth of English and Japanese-language sources, the author identifies parallel groups of modernist thinkers in America and Japan – including politicians,... Read more
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
Biography
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).
