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Summary:

During the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of Japan's economic recovery became clear, they placed prosperity at the core of a revised vision for their new ally's future, as Jennifer Miller shows in this fresh appraisal of the Cold War.
Jennifer M. Miller examines the evolution of ideas about democracy during the Cold War by charting the development of the alliance between the United States and Japan from the postwar occupation into the 1960s. She argues that both countries were deeply concerned with sustaining a commitment to the idea of democracy in the aftermath of World War II. This allegiance to democracy as a rhetorical and ideological platform created new opportunities and constrained the choices of actors in each country and greatly influenced each country's policies regionally and globally. She shows that a "clash of visions" both inside Japan and the US and between diplomats and leaders on both sides of the alliance helped to sustain the commitment to democracy, rather than tearing it free. But, in doing so, many of the opportunities that democracy promised--both domestically and internationally--were lost.-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Democracy as a state of mind
• Militarizing democracy
• The San Francisco peace treaty
• Bloody Sunagawa
• A breaking point
• Producing democracy.

Author/Creator:

Miller, Jennifer M. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Cold War democracy: the United States and Japan [by Miller, J.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Cold war democracy [by Miller, J.M.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 — ISBN 9780674976344; LCCN 2018040572; OCLC Number 1032671638)

Subjects:

Cold War

Democracy — Japan — History — 20th century

Democracy — United States — History — 20th century

Japan — Foreign relations — United States

Japan — Foreign relations — 1945-1989

United States — Foreign relations — Japan

United States — Foreign relations — 1945-1989

United States — Politics and government — 1945-1989

Japan — Politics and government — 1945-1989

Cold War (1945-1989)

1900-1999

Diplomatic relations

Politics and government

Democracy

United States

Japan

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 6, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JC423 .M555 2019eb

ISBNs:

9780674240018 (electronic bk.)
0674240014 (electronic bk.)
9780674240032 (MOBI)
0674240030 (MOBI)
9780674240025 (EPUB)
0674240022 (EPUB)
0674976347
9780674976344
9780674976344 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1084727112