The occupation-era correspondence of Kichisaburo Nomura compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Peter Mauch ; [foreword by James E. Auer].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nomura, Kichisaburō, 1877-1964.

Contributor:

Auer, James E.

Mauch, Peter (Peter Cameron)

Series:

Brill eBook titles 2010

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nomura, Kichisaburō, 1877-1964--Correspondence.

Nomura, Kichisaburō.

Admirals--Japan--Correspondence.

Admirals.

Diplomats--Japan--Correspondence.

Diplomats.

Japan--Foreign relations--United States--Sources.

Japan.

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

United States--Foreign relations--Japan--Sources.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Folkestone, Kent, UK : Global Oriental, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is based on the recent discovery of the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura – Japanese admiral, one-time foreign minister, pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and “spiritual godfather” of postwar Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force. The volume reproduces Nomura’s occupation-era correspondence with his American friends and associates, including Navy Secretary Daniel Kimball, SCAP Political Advisor William Sebald, former ambassadors William Castle and Joseph Grew, Army and Navy Journal owner John Callan O’Laughlin, as well as Admirals William Pratt, Arleigh Burke, Charles Turner Joy, Ralph Oftsie, and Harold Martin. The correspondence is extraordinarily revealing, and provides rich insights into domestic conditions in occupied Japan, U.S. policies toward occupied Japan, the Cold War in Asia, and Japan’s eventual rearmament. In this way, the book enables readers to confront for themselves a hitherto largely neglected attempt at defining and cementing the post-WWII Japanese-U.S. partnership.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / P. Mauch

Introduction / P. Mauch

Part I. The Early Occupation Period, 1945–1947 / P. Mauch

Part 2. The Cold War And Japan’s Economic Revival, 1948 / P. Mauch

Part 3. The Cold War And Japanese Security, January 1949–May 1950 / P. Mauch

Part 4. The Korean War And Japanese Security, June 1950–August 1951 / P. Mauch

Part 5. Japanese Independence And Defensibility, September 1951–December 1952 / P. Mauch

Notes / P. Mauch

Bibliography / P. Mauch

Index / P. Mauch.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-48617-9

1-283-26575-3

9786612486173

9786613265753

90-04-21292-2

OCLC:

753480432

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9781906876159.i-244 DOI