More Details

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / John W. Dower
• 1. Occupation Reform as an American Cultural Offensive
• 2. The Cold War, the "Reverse Course," and the Rise of Nationalism
• 3. The Making of a "Soft Peace" and Japan's "Proper Place"
• 4. John D. Rockefeller III in Tokyo: Cultural Exchange versus Cultural Imperialism
• 5. The Rockefeller Report: Countering the Communist Menace
• 6. The U.S. Cultural Offensive and Japanese Intellectuals
• 7. Making Japanese Pro-American: The 1950 American Studies Seminar in Tokyo
• 8. The Kyoto American Studies Seminar and American Soft Power
• 9. Occupation Reform, "Shallow Democracy," and Consumerism
• App. A. The State of Scholarship on U.S.-Japan Relations
• App. B. The Tokyo-Stanford Seminars in American Studies
• App. C. The Kyoto Seminars in American Studies.

Author/Creator:

Matsuda, Takeshi, 1945-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Soft power and its perils: U.S. cultural policy in early postwar Japan and permanent dependency [by Matsuda, T.]

Subjects:

Japan — History — Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Government missions, American — Japan

Japan — Civilization — American influences

United States — Foreign relations — Japan

Japan — Foreign relations — United States

Allied Occupation of Japan (Japan : 1945-1952)

1945-1952

Civilization — American influences

Diplomatic relations

Government missions, American

Japan

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-357) and index.

Physical Description:

xx, 372 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

DS889.16 .M38 2007

ISBNs:

9780804700405 (cloth, alk. paper)
0804700400 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007010419

OCLC Numbers:

86038330