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- English
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Japan's American Interlude
About this book
How did the Japanese themselves respond to the American occupation? How were the sweeping reformsāpolitical, social, and economicāof SCAP's program received? How permanent was their effect, and why did some succeed and others fail completely? How successful in the long view was the democratization induced by MacArthur's "artificial revolution"? And what tendencies existing in fundamental Japanese attitudes and history might account for this peculiar success?
Kazuo Kawai, Japanese-born and educated in America, a political scientist and journalist, brings his unique experience and knowledge to bear on these questions. The result is a book which tells the story of the American occupation of Japan from the Japanese point of view.
"This book deals with the American interlude in the history of Japan during which time that country was not only occupied by American troops and politically controlled by American officials but was subjected to almost every conceivable variety of American influence. It does not attempt to tell the story of the Occupation itself, for that story has already been told many times by Americans who, as participants or close observers, were in a position to tell it well. Instead, this work deals only with selected controversial aspects of the Japanese reaction to American influence during the Occupation period."āKazuo Kawai, Preface
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I-Attitudes
- CHAPTER II-The Character of the Occupation
- CHAPTER III-The Background for Democratization
- CHAPTER IV-The Constitution
- CHAPTER V-The Emperor
- CHAPTER VI-Political Reorganization
- CHAPTER VII-The Location of Political Power
- CHAPTER VIII-Economic Reforms
- CHAPTER IX-Labor, Agriculture, and Economic Recovery
- CHAPTER X-The New Basic Education
- CHAPTER XI-Higher-Education and Mass Education
- CHAPTER XII-Social Change: The Process of Democratization
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER