We, the Japanese people : World War II and the origins of the Japanese constitution / Dale M. Hellegers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hellegers, Dale M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Armistices.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

Constitutions--Japan.

Constitutions.

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

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on scores of interviews with participants in the process, as well as exhaustive research in Japanese and American records, this is the definitive story of how the United States attempted to turn Japan into a democratic and peace-loving nation by drafting a new constitution for its former enemy--and then pretending that the Japanese had written it.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: VOLUME ONE * WASHINGTON

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

1. Unconditional Surrender and Its Legacies 1

2. Uneasy Allies: Soviet Participation in the Pacific War 34

3. Voices in the Wilderness 57

4. The Road to Potsdam: Defining Unconditional Surrender 101

5. Potsdam: The Politics of Deliverance 120

6. "Come Hell or High Water": Terms of Surrender for Japan 138

7. Planning for the Military Government ofJapan, 1942-1944 159

8. "A Sunday School Flavor": Planning for

the Military Government ofJapan, 1945 190

9. "The Velvet Glove": Policy Toward the Emperor

and Constitutional Reform 223

A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 249

Notes to Volume One 255

VOLUME TWO * TOKYO

lo. Under Siege: The Early Days of Occupation 405

11. "Dust and Ashes": The Konoe Affair 438

12. "Opaque, Bureaucratic Secretiveness":

The Shidehara Government Looks at Constitutional Reform 461

13. Atomic Sunshine Boys: The Rise of the Government Section 487

14. A "Top Secret" Constitutional Convention 518

15. "For Your Convenience and Protection":

Negotiating with the Japanese Government 527

Epilogue 545

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A The Preamble 553

APPENDIX B The Emperor and Miscellaneous Affairs 557

APPENDIX C Renunciation of War 576

APPENDIX D Civil Rights 580

APPENDIX E The Diet 612

APPENDIX F The Executive 630

APPENDIX G The Judiciary 645

APPENDIX H Public Finance 657

APPENDIX I Local Government 666

APPENDIX J A Comparison of the MacArthur Draft and the

Japanese Government Draft of 2 March 1946 673

A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 713

Notes to Volume Two 719

Selected Bibliography 795

Index 809.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-8032-3

OCLC:

54092932