America's Japan : The First Year, 1945–1946 / Grant K. Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Grant K., Author.

Contributor:

Sodei, Rinjiro, Contributor.

Series:

World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

One of the few non-Japanese Americans trained to read, write, and speak Japanese, Princeton undergraduate Grant Goodman had a privileged position during World War II. As an Army lieutenant, Goodman served in the Philippines at the close of the war and in Tokyo as an intelligence officer on General Douglas MacArthur’s staff. Goodman translated thousands of letters, interviews, and other documents by Japanese citizens of all kinds, and came to know, as few Americans could, the “hearts and minds” of a defeated people as they moved slowly to democracy. This book is a not only a fascinating personal chronicle of Grant Goodman’s unique experience in Japan. Moving deftly between his role as an Army officer gathering essential information and as a young scholar fascinated by Japanese culture, he provides a vividly drawn portrait of daily life in occupied Tokyo.Here he looks back at signal events: Japan’s responses to occupation, the writing of the new constitution and the de-deification of the Emperor, the International Military Tribunal and the issue of Japanese war crimes, reactions by ordinary Japanese to American occupiers, and much more.September 2, 2005, marks the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri. First published in Japanese in 1986, America’s Japan is not only superb history. It is also a timely reminder of the realities of war and the responsibilities of victors and vanquished alike.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

1. A Yen for Japan

2. My First Study of Japanese-My Matriculation at Princeton University

3. My Memories of the Army Intensive Japanese Language School-The University of Michigan

4. Practical Training-Fort McClellan and Fort Snelling

5. To the Front Lines in the Philippines

6. Meeting the Surrender Envoys

7. Our Landing in Japan

8. My Work as an ATIS Officer

9. Letters to General MacArthur

10. My Views of General MacArthur

11. My View of the Constitution

12. The Movements of Reform-The Dynamic and the Static

13. The Appearance of Emperor Kumazawa

14. The Yokohama Court

15. The Democratic Boom, the English Boom, and the Christianity Boom

16. Two Suicides

17. My Trip to Shanghai

18. The Mikado

19. Observing the Tokyo War Crimes Trials

20. Returning to America

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9516-8

OCLC:

1322124816