The British Commonwealth and the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 : personal encounters and government assessments / edited by Ian Nish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nish, Ian.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.

Japan.

History.

Commonwealth countries--Foreign relations--Japan.

Commonwealth countries.

Japan--Foreign relations--Commonwealth countries.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Japan.

Great Britain.

Japan--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

British Commonwealth Occupation Force.

Physical Description:

xvi, 309 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Global Oriental, 2013.

Summary:

The Allied Occupation of Japan lasted from 2 September 1945 to 28 April 1952 and ushered in an era of unprecedented change for that country. Although British Commonwealth participation played only small part in that story - involving only some 30,000 troops from the various Commonwealth countries compared with the vast numbers of the United States Eighth Army - it nevertheless prompts a discussion, hitherto largely undocumented, concerning its role and relevance. In The British Commonwealth and the Allied Occupation of Japan, Ian Nish who himself was a member of BCOF presents papers by twenty-three authors, partly biographical, partly academic, on subjects grouped in five themes: Origins of the Allied Occupation, Attitudes on the Occupation, Personal Views, the Commonwealth and Peace Negotiations, and the Commonwealth and the Japanese Treaties. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Allied occupation of Japan: origins. Personal reminiscences of the early months of the occupation: Yokosuka and Tokyo, September 1945-March 1946 / W.G. Beasley

MacArthurian Japan: remembered and revised / Grant K. Goodman

Reminiscences of a misspent youth: Tokyo, 1946-49 / Hans H. Baerwald

Part II. British Commonwealth attitudes on Japan's occupation. Australia and the occupation of Japan / Geoffrey Bolton

New Zealand and the occupation of Japan / Gordon Daniels

Canada and the occupation of Japan / Hamish Ion

India and the occupation of Japan / Ian Nish

Impressions of a Japanese historian / Takemae Eiji

Part III. The British Commonwealth occupation force: personal views. An Australian's experiences / T.B. Millar

Some Royal Navy reflections / Walter Miller

RAF experiences / Hugh Cortazzi

A British army perspective / Ian Nish

A historian and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) / R. John Pritchard

Part IV. The Commonwealth pushes for peace negotiations. Commonwealth cooperation and rivalry / Kibata Yoichi

Truman, Attlee and the Korean War crisis / Roger Dingman

The Dulles-Yoshida talks, 1950-1951 / Hosoya Chihiro

Yoshida Shigeru and the political parties' difficulties over the question of the San Francisco Peace Treaty / Tozawa Kenji

Part V. The Commonwealth and the Japanese treaties. Britain's Labour Government and the Japanese peace / Peter Lowe

Hong Kong and San Francisco: Anglo-American debate on East Asia and the Japanese peace settlements / Roger Buckley

Britain and Japan, 1951: San Francisco and Tokyo / Hugh Cortazzi

San Francisco treaty-making and its implications for New Zealand / Ann Trotter

Australia, the Japanese Peace Treaty and the ANZUS Pact / Neville Meaney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9789004242951

9004242953

OCLC:

808417360

Publisher Number:

99954162313