An Empire in Eclipse

Japan in the Post-war American Alliance System: A Study in the Interraction of Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

John Welfield

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781780939933
• eBook ISBN: 9781780939957
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Japanese History
• Index: History

In this major account of Japan's relationship with America since the Second World War, the author breaks new ground in linking Japan's foreign policy with the arena of domestic politics. The changing balance between a pro-American and anti-American groups was a decisive factor and Professor Welfield provides a lucid analysis of this complex scene. First published in 1988, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Note on the Text
• I: Japanese approaches to foreign policy: the legacy of history, 239–1945
• II: The postwar international order and the origins of the San Francisco system, 1945–1952
• III: Japanese rearmament, 1945–1955
• IV: Japan and the United States Pacific alliance system, 1952–1958
• V: Liberal Democratic Party factionalism and foreign policy, 1957–1960
• VI: The 1960 security treaty crisis
• VII: Japan, the United States and China, 1960–1967
• VIII: Japan, the United States and the Great Crescent, 1960–1967
• IX: Domestic politics, foreign policy and the reversion of Okinawa, 1960–1972
• X: Japan's nuclear policies and the non-proliferation treaty, 1955–1970
• XI: Japan, the United States and China, 1970–1972
• XII: Japanese foreign policy in the age of détente, 1972–1978
• XIII: The Self Defence Forces, 1960–1978
• XIV: Defence policy decision-making, 1960–1978
• Epilogue: Japan, the United States and East Asia after the collapse of détente, 1978–1987
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index