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Author:   Makoto Iokibe (National Defence Academy of Japan & Kobe University, Japan) ,  Caroline Rose (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Junko Tomaru (Sophia University, Japan) ,  John Weste (University of Leeds, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780415673914

ISBN 10:   0415673917
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   17 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Caroline Rose and Tomaru Junko Part 1: Japan: Anglo-American Rivalry and Indifference 1. The U.S., Britain, Japan and the Issue of Casus Belli 1951-52 Shibayama Futoshi 2. Great Britain and Japanese Rearmament, 1950-1960 John Weste 3. Japan in British Regional Policy towards South-East Asia, 1945-1960 Tomaru Junko Part 2: Japan’s Re-Emergence in Regional and International Organizations 4. Japan at the Bandung Conference Kweku Ampiah 5. Japan’s Entry into ECAFE Oba Mie 6. Japan’s Struggle for UN Membership, 1955 Kurusu Kaoru Part 3: Japanese and US Domestic Constraints on Foreign Policy 7. The Lucky Dragon Incident: A Failure of Crisis Management? John Swenson-Wright 8. The Revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and Okinawa Factional and Domestic Political Constraints on Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s Robert Eldridge 9. Breaking the Deadlock: Japan’s Informal Diplomacy with China, 1958-59 Caroline Rose. Conclusion John Weste

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Iokibe Makoto is President of the National Defense Academy and Emeritus Professor of Modern Japanese Political and Diplomatic History in the Graduate School of Law and Politics at Kobe University. He is one of Japan's leading specialists of Japanese foreign relations, particularly with the US. He is the author of several award-winning books, including The Occupation Era: Prime Ministers and the Rebuilding of Postwar Japan, 1945--1952 (Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 1997), and A Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan (Yuhikaku, 1999). Caroline Rose is senior lecturer in Japanese Studies and currently head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. She has published two monographs on Sino-Japanese relations and articles on Japanese history education, Chinese and Japanese nationalism, and Sino-Japanese relations in the East Asian context. Tomaru Junko is Professor in the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. Her publications include The Postwar Rapprochement of Malaya and Japan, 1945--61 (Macmillan, 2000, awarded the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2001). John Weste held lectureships in Japanese Studies at the University of Durham (1995--2004) and Leeds (2004--06). He studied in Japan at the University of Tsukuba and obtained his PhD from Cambridge. His publications cover areas including post-war Japanese rearmament and Anglo-Japanese relations.

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