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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Japan.

History.

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

Japan.

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:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Global Oriental, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Ian Nish

Introduction / Ian Nish

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

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

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

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

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

Appendix: John Northcott’s Notice on Fraternization / Ian Nish

Index / Ian Nish.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24296-1

OCLC:

851264080

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004242968 DOI