1st Edition

Japan in the 1960s Ten Years of Turning Points

Edited By Robert D. Eldridge, Jason M. Morgan Copyright 2025
208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. From street battles over Japan’s security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former Japanese territory of South Korea, to Japan’s hosting the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1960s in Japan was a decade of turning points.  This... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction  Robert D. Eldridge and Jason M. Morgan

 

Chapter 1    Japan’s Response to South Korea’s May 16, 1961, Coup

                    Chizuko T. Allen

 

Chapter 2    Japan and North Korea in 1963: The Origins of the Abduction Issue

                    Araki Kazuhiro

 

Chapter 3    The Satō Eisaku Administration and Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Nuclear Intimidation and Domestic Politics in Japan, 1964-1968

                    Arai Takafumi

 

Chapter 4    “The Postwar Is Not Over for Japan Unless Okinawa’s Return to Its Home Country Is Realized”: Prime Minister Satō’s 1965 Visit to Okinawa, Japan-U.S. Relations, and Domestic Dynamics

                    Robert D. Eldridge

 

Chapter 5   Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange during the Cold War: The Shimoda Conference in 1967

                   Kusunoki Ayako

 

Chapter 6   Postwar Japan, Businessmen, and the Self-Defense Forces: The Growth of Support Networks for Japan’s Postwar "Military" during the 1960s

                    Nakahara Masato

 

Chapter 7   The Phantom United Nations Cooperation Bill: Japan’s Lost Potential to Become a “Middle Power” in the 1960s

                    Murakami Tomoaki

 

Chapter 8  New Waves: 1960s Japanese Cinema in the Eyes of the World

                    Tom Mes

 

Chapter 9  The Individual in (as) the Body Politic: Seichō no Ie and Anti-Abortion Kokutai
                   Spiritualism in 1960s Japan

                    Jason M. Morgan

 

Chapter 10   Tibetans in Japan in the 1960s: The Story of a 12-Year-Old Refugee

                    Pema Gyalpo

 

Chapter 11  Japan and Spain in the 1960s: International Relations, Economy, and Culture

                    Eduardo González de la Fuente

 

Chapter 12  Japan’s Economic, Scientific, and Technological Engagement with the United States and International Economic Organizations in the 1960s

                    Erik M. Jacobs

 

Biography

Robert D. Eldridge is a specialist in Japanese political and diplomatic history and U.S.-Japan relations and the author of hundreds of books, essays, and reviews on these subjects.

Jason M. Morgan is Associate Professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. Morgan studies Japanese history, politics, and philosophy.