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Altered States : The United States and Japan since the Occupation by Michael Schaller (1997, Hardcover)

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Format: Hardback. Title: Altered States. Subtitle: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation. Missing Information?. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Language: English. ISBN-10: 0195069161. Release Date: 12/04/1997.

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195069161

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Book TitleAltered States : the United States and Japan since the Occupation

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAsia / General, International Relations / General

Publication Year1997

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorMichael Schaller

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight22.6 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

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Reviews"Schaller writes well and demonstrates superb command of complicatedeconomic as well as political issues." The International History Review, "Drawing largely on archival sources to provide a perceptive overview ofthe crucial period from the Occupation through the mid-1970s, Schaller makes apersuasive case for the arresting proposition that latter-day Japan is to agreat extent what American foreign-policy made it.... An informative bridfing ona decidedly odd geopolitical couple's increasingly ambivalent alliance."--KirkusReviews, "Altered States, a meticulously documented dipolmatic history of postwar Japan...is a distinguished work of scholarship, painstaking and eminently readable."--Nicholas D. Kristof, Foreign Affairs, "A stone-honest accounting of all our grimy shenanigans on Japanese soil in the name of national security."--Patrick Smith, The Nation, "Altered States, a meticulously documented dipolmatic history of postwarJapan...is a distinguished work of scholarship, painstaking and eminentlyreadable."--Nicholas D. Kristof, Foreign Affairs, "Slowly but surely the archives are being opened and control over the history of the occupation of Japan is slipping beyond the American officials who were actually responsible for administering it. Schaller's book starts to break the official monopoly over how Americans are supposed to think about Japan. The results are central to the formulation of a truly post-Cold War foreign policy by the United States, whenever that may occur. Schaller details theextraordinary degree to which the true parents of Japan today are the Pentagon and the CIA. His book is vital reading for Americans who want to know about the origins of the forces shaping the 21stcentury."--Chalmers Johnson, author ofMiti and the Japanese Miracle."Drawing largely on archival sources to provide a perceptive overview of the crucial period from the Occupation through the mid-1970s, Schaller makes a persuasive case for the arresting proposition that latter-day Japan is to a great extent what American foreign-policy made it....An informative briefing on a decidedly odd geopolitical couple's increasingly ambivalent alliance."--Kirkus Reviews"[Altered States] serves as a reminder to some and a revelation to many that much that Americans now begrudge Japan is a direct result of American policies during and just after the occupation."--Booklist"A stone-honest accounting of all our grimy shenanigans on Japanese soil in the name of national security."--Patrick Smith, The Nation"Michael Schaller's new book is a good one to read to understand the historical background of the United States-Japan security system...[A]lso very useful for a reconsideration of post-World War II Sino-American relations."--The Journal of American History"Altered States, a meticulously documented dipolmatic history of postwar Japan...is a distinguished work of scholarship, painstaking and eminently readable."--Nicholas D. Kristof, Foreign Affairs, "Slowly but surely the archives are being opened and control over thehistory of the occupation of Japan is slipping beyond the American officials whowere actually responsible for administering it. Schaller's book starts to breakthe official monopoly over how Americans are supposed to think about Japan. Theresults are central to the formulation of a truly post-Cold War foreign policyby the United States, whenever that may occur. Schaller details theextraordinary degree to which the true parents of Japan today are the Pentagonand the CIA. His book is vital reading for Americans who want to know about theorigins of the forces shaping the 21st century."--Chalmers Johnson, authorofMiti and the Japanese Miracle., "[Altered States] serves as a reminder to some and a revelation to many that much that Americans now begrudge Japan is a direct result of American policies during and just after the occupation."--Booklist, "Slowly but surely the archives are being opened and control over the history of the occupation of Japan is slipping beyond the American officials who were actually responsible for administering it. Schaller's book starts to break the official monopoly over how Americans are supposed to think about Japan. The results are central to the formulation of a truly post-Cold War foreign policy by the United States, whenever that may occur. Schaller details the extraordinary degree to which the true parents of Japan today are the Pentagon and the CIA. His book is vital reading for Americans who want to know about the origins of the forces shaping the 21st century."--Chalmers Johnson, author ofMiti and the Japanese Miracle. "Drawing largely on archival sources to provide a perceptive overview of the crucial period from the Occupation through the mid-1970s, Schaller makes a persuasive case for the arresting proposition that latter-day Japan is to a great extent what American foreign-policy made it....An informative briefing on a decidedly odd geopolitical couple's increasingly ambivalent alliance."--Kirkus Reviews "[Altered States] serves as a reminder to some and a revelation to many that much that Americans now begrudge Japan is a direct result of American policies during and just after the occupation."--Booklist "A stone-honest accounting of all our grimy shenanigans on Japanese soil in the name of national security."--Patrick Smith, The Nation "Michael Schaller's new book is a good one to read to understand the historical background of the United States-Japan security system...[A]lso very useful for a reconsideration of post-World War II Sino-American relations."--The Journal of American History "Altered States, a meticulously documented dipolmatic history of postwar Japan...is a distinguished work of scholarship, painstaking and eminently readable."--Nicholas D. Kristof, Foreign Affairs, "Drawing largely on archival sources to provide a perceptive overview of the crucial period from the Occupation through the mid-1970s, Schaller makes a persuasive case for the arresting proposition that latter-day Japan is to a great extent what American foreign-policy made it.... Aninformative briefing on a decidedly odd geopolitical couple's increasingly ambivalent alliance."--Kirkus Reviews, "Schaller writes well and demonstrates superb command of complicated economic as well as political issues." The International History Review, "Slowly but surely the archives are being opened and control over the history of the occupation of Japan is slipping beyond the American officials who were actually responsible for administering it. Schaller's book starts to break the official monopoly over how Americans are supposed to think about Japan. The results are central to the formulation of a truly post-Cold War foreign policy by the United States, whenever that may occur. Schaller details the extraordinary degree to which the true parents of Japan today are the Pentagon and the CIA. His book is vital reading for Americans who want to know about the origins of the forces shaping the 21st century."--Chalmers Johnson, author ofMiti and the Japanese Miracle."Drawing largely on archival sources to provide a perceptive overview of the crucial period from the Occupation through the mid-1970s, Schaller makes a persuasive case for the arresting proposition that latter-day Japan is to a great extent what American foreign-policy made it....An informative briefing on a decidedly odd geopolitical couple's increasingly ambivalent alliance."--Kirkus Reviews"[Altered States] serves as a reminder to some and a revelation to many that much that Americans now begrudge Japan is a direct result of American policies during and just after the occupation."--Booklist"A stone-honest accounting of all our grimy shenanigans on Japanese soil in the name of national security."--Patrick Smith, The Nation"Michael Schaller's new book is a good one to read to understand the historical background of the United States-Japan security system...[A]lso very useful for a reconsideration of post-World War II Sino-American relations."--The Journal of American History"Altered States, a meticulously documented dipolmatic history of postwar Japan...is a distinguished work of scholarship, painstaking and eminently readable."--Nicholas D. Kristof, Foreign Affairs, "Michael Schaller's new book is a good one to read to understand thehistorical background of the United States-Japan security system...also veryuseful for a reconsideration of post-World War II Sino-American relations."--TheJournal of American History, "A stone-honest accounting of all our grimy shenanigans on Japanese soilin the name of national security."--Patrick Smith, The Nation, "Michael Schaller's new book is a good one to read to understand the historical background of the United States-Japan security system...also very useful for a reconsideration of post-World War II Sino-American relations."--The Journal of American History, "[Altered States] serves as a reminder to some and a revelation to manythat much that Americans now begrudge Japan is a direct result of Americanpolicies during and just after the occupation."--Booklist, "Slowly but surely the archives are being opened and control over the history of the occupation of Japan is slipping beyond the American officials who were actually responsible for administering it. Schaller's book starts to break the official monopoly over how Americans are supposed to thinkabout Japan. The results are central to the formulation of a truly post-Cold War foreign policy by the United States, whenever that may occur. Schaller details the extraordinary degree to which the true parents of Japan today are the Pentagon and the CIA. His book is vital reading for Americanswho want to know about the origins of the forces shaping the 21st century."--Chalmers Johnson, author ofMiti and the Japanese Miracle.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal327.73052

SynopsisMichael Schaller supplies the historical background to show how the US transformed Japan from enemy to ally, covering the crucial years from 1945 to 1973 in which Japan emerged as a regional and global economic power. Schaller focuses on political, strategic, and economic relations, illuminating the connections between America's early trade policies toward Japan and the desire to secure the country as a bulwark against Communism in Asia., The relationship between the United States and Japan is torn by contrary impulses. We face each other across the Pacific as friends and allies, as the two most powerful economies in the world--and as suspicious rivals. Americans admire the industry of the Japanese, but we resent the huge trade deficit that has developed between us, due to what we consider to be unfair trade practices and "unlevel playing fields." Now, in Altered States, historian Michael Schaller strips away the stereotypes and misinformation clouding American perceptions of Japan, providing the historical background that helps us make sense of this important relationship. Here is an eye-opening history of U.S.-Japan relations from the end of World War II to the present, revealing its rich depths and startling complexities. Perhaps Schaller's most startling revelation is that modern Japan is what we made it--that most of what we criticize in Japan's behavior today stems directly from U.S. policy in the 1950s. Indeed, as the book shows, for seven years after the end of the war, our occupational forces exerted enormous influence over the shape and direction of Japan's economic future. Stunned by the Communist victory in China and the outbreak of war in Korea, and fearful that Japan might form ties with Mao's China, the U.S. encouraged the rapid development of the Japanese economy, protecting the huge industrial conglomerates and creating new bureaucracies to direct growth. Thus Japan's government-guided, export-driven economy was nurtured by our own policy. Moreover, the United States fretted about Japan's economic weakness--that they would become dependent on us--and sought to expand Tokyo's access to markets in the very areas it had just tried to conquer, the old Co Prosperity Sphere. Schaller documents how, as the Cold War deepened throughout the 1950s, Washington showered money on what it saw as the keystone of the eastern shore of Asia, working assiduously to expand the Japanese economy and, in fact, worrying intensely over the American trade surplus. Fear of Japanese instability ran so deep that Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson approved secret financial help to Japanese conservative politicians, some of whom had been accused of war crimes against Americans. Then came the 1960s, and the surplus faded into a deficit. The book reveals how Washington's involvement in Vietnam provided the Japanese government with political cover for quietly pursuing a more independent course. Even in the 1970s, however, with America's one time ward turned into an economic powerhouse, the Nixon administration failed to pay much attention to Tokyo. Schaller shows that Kissinger openly preferred the more charismatic company of Zhou Enlai to that of Japanese technocrats, while economics bored him. The United States almost missed the fact that Japan had developed into a country that could say no, and very loudly. Michael Schaller has won widespread acclaim for his earlier books on U. S. relations with Asia. His fearless judgments, his fluid pen, his depth of knowledge and research have all lifted him to the front rank of historians writing today. In Altered States, he illuminates the most important, and troubled, relationship in the world in a work certain to cement his reputation., The relationship between the United States and Japan is torn by contrary impulses. We face each other across the Pacific as friends and allies, as the two most powerful economies in the world--and as suspicious rivals. Americans admire the industry of the Japanese, but we resent the huge trade deficit that has developed between us, due to what we consider to be unfair trade practices and "unlevel playing fields." Now, in Altered States , historian Michael Schaller strips away the stereotypes and misinformation clouding American perceptions of Japan, providing the historical background that helps us make sense of this important relationship. Here is an eye-opening history of U.S.-Japan relations from the end of World War II to the present, revealing its rich depths and startling complexities. Perhaps Schaller's most startling revelation is that modern Japan is what we made it--that most of what we criticize in Japan's behavior today stems directly from U.S. policy in the 1950s. Indeed, as the book shows, for seven years after the end of the war, our occupational forces exerted enormous influence over the shape and direction of Japan's economic future. Stunned by the Communist victory in China and the outbreak of war in Korea, and fearful that Japan might form ties with Mao's China, the U.S. encouraged the rapid development of the Japanese economy, protecting the huge industrial conglomerates and creating new bureaucracies to direct growth. Thus Japan's government-guided, export-driven economy was nurtured by our own policy. Moreover, the United States fretted about Japan's economic weakness--that they would become dependent on us--and sought to expand Tokyo's access to markets in the very areas it had just tried to conquer, the old Co Prosperity Sphere. Schaller documents how, as the Cold War deepened throughout the 1950s, Washington showered money on what it saw as the keystone of the eastern shore of Asia, working assiduously to expand the Japanese economy and, in fact, worrying intensely over the American trade surplus. Fear of Japanese instability ran so deep that Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson approved secret financial help to Japanese conservative politicians, some of whom had been accused of war crimes against Americans. Then came the 1960s, and the surplus faded into a deficit. The book reveals how Washington's involvement in Vietnam provided the Japanese government with political cover for quietly pursuing a more independent course. Even in the 1970s, however, with America's one time ward turned into an economic powerhouse, the Nixon administration failed to pay much attention to Tokyo. Schaller shows that Kissinger openly preferred the more charismatic company of Zhou Enlai to that of Japanese technocrats, while economics bored him. The United States almost missed the fact that Japan had developed into a country that could say no, and very loudly. Michael Schaller has won widespread acclaim for his earlier books on U. S. relations with Asia. His fearless judgments, his fluid pen, his depth of knowledge and research have all lifted him to the front rank of historians writing today. In Altered States , he illuminates the most important, and troubled, relationship in the world in a work certain to cement his reputation.

LC Classification NumberE183.8.J3S28 1997