Winners in Peace
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Winners in Peace

MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan

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eBook - ePub

Winners in Peace

MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan

About this book

Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952. He focuses on the two main actors, General Douglas MacArthur and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, and details the era's major events, programs, and personalities, both American and Japanese. Finn draws on an impressive range of sources—American, Japanese, British, and Australian—including interviews with nearly one hundred participants in the Occupation. He describes the war crimes trials, constitutional reforms, and American efforts to rebuild Japan. The work of George Kennan in making political stability and economic recovery the top goals of the United States became critical in the face of the developing Cold War. Winners in Peace will aid our understanding of Japan today—its economic growth, its style of government, and the strong pacifist spirit of its people. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520333222
eBook ISBN
9780520333239
Edition
1
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia asiática

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. PART I Enemies Face to Face
  9. CHAPTER 1 Tense Beginnings
  10. CHAPTER 2 First Encounters
  11. CHAPTER 3 Planning and Organizing the Occupation
  12. PART II MacArthur’s Two Hundred Days
  13. CHAPTER 4 The First Wave of Reform
  14. CHAPTER 5 The Allies
  15. CHAPTER 6 War Crimes and Punishment by Purge
  16. CHAPTER 7 The New Constitution
  17. PART III Japan’s Search for Stability
  18. CHAPTER 8 The Emergence of Yoshida Shigeru
  19. CHAPTER 9 The Second Reform Wave
  20. CHAPTER 10 The 1947 Labor Crisis and the Defeat of Yoshida
  21. CHAPTER 11 MacArthur, the Allies, and Washington
  22. CHAPTER 12 The Failure of Coalition Politics
  23. CHAPTER 13 The End of the War Crimes Trials
  24. PART IV New Policies and New Directions
  25. CHAPTER 14 Washington Intervenes
  26. CHAPTER 15 New Life in Tokyo
  27. CHAPTER 16 Unrest and Violence on the Left
  28. PART V Peace Settlement
  29. CHAPTER 17 The Search for Peace
  30. CHAPTER 18 The Korean War
  31. CHAPTER 19 Shaping the Peace Settlement
  32. CHAPTER 20 The Firing of MacArthur
  33. Signing the Treaties and Ending the Occupation
  34. PART VI Aftermath
  35. APPENDIX A Chronology of Main Events
  36. APPENDIX B List of Principal Actors
  37. Notes
  38. Bibliography
  39. Interviews
  40. Index