Japan and North America: First contacts to the Pacific War, Volume 1This collection makes available key articles on the Japan-North American relationship from the Meiji era to the present. Volume one focuses on the necessity of Japanese modernization post-1868 and examines the build-up to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour. Volume two looks at the post-war period, in which US forces occupied Japan and were instrumental in its rebuilding as an economic superpower. In the years following this Japan and North America enjoyed a close yet occasionally fraught relationship, as competitors and allies. Volume two also examines the cultural ramifications of the influence of North America on Japan, and vice versa. Titles also available in this series include, Japan and South East Asia: International Relations (2001, 2 volumes, 295) and the forthcoming title Japanese Linguistics (2005, 3 volumes, c.425). |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART | 2 |
manifest destiny modernisation | 25 |
The first Japanese embassy to the United States | 37 |
explaining Japanese | 49 |
the Japanese | 62 |
Canada and the myth of the Japan market 18961911 | 89 |
from friendly irritants | 109 |
one road to Pearl Harbor | 202 |
The origins of the Pacific War | 230 |
PART 9 | 251 |
deterrence theory and decision theory | 255 |
Economic ties 209 | 261 |
The decision to use the atomic bomb | 281 |
Marshall Truman and the decision to drop the bomb | 297 |
Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory | 345 |
evolution of a strategy | 130 |
Japans special interests and the Washington Conference | 157 |
the background | 167 |
the origins of the Second World | 181 |
World War II in the American | 368 |
Japans plans for museum on World War II mired in dispute | 386 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Japan and North America: First contacts to the Pacific War, Volume 1 Volume 1 of Japan and North America : RoutledgeCurzon library of modern Japan / ed. by Ellis Krauss and Benjamin Nyblade Volume 1 of Japan and North America, Benjamin Nyblade, ISBN 0415275148, 9780415275149 Japan and North America: First Contacts to the Pacific War, Ellis S. Krauss, ISBN 0415275148, 9780415275149 Volume 1 of RoutledgeCurzon library of modern Japan |
| Editors | Ellis S. Krauss, Benjamin Nyblade |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0415275156, 9780415275156 |
| Length | 408 pages |
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