Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s: From Isolation to Integration

by Iokibe; Makoto

• ISBN13: 9780415372961
• ISBN10: 0415372968
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This important work provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the significant decade of the 1950s, a decade when many new international problems emerged, where Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today.

Table of Contents

Note on style
Introduction	p. 1
Japan, Anglo-American rivalry, and indifference
The US, Britain, Japan, and the issue of casus belli 1951-2: Could a Soviet attack on Japan justify starting a third world war?	p. 13
Great Britain and Japanese rearmament, 1945-60	p. 34
Japan in British Regional Policy towards South-East Asia, 1945-1960	p. 55
Japan's re-emergence in regional and international organizations	p. 77
Japan at the Bandung Conference: An attempt to assert an independent foreign policy	p. 79
Japan's entry into ECAFE	p. 98
Japan's struggle for UN membership in 1955	p. 114
Japanese and US domestic constraints on foreign policy	p. 137
The Lucky Dragon Incident of 1954: A failure of crisis management?	p. 139
The revision of the US-Japan security treaty and Okinawa: Factional and domestic political constraints on Japanese diplomacy in the 1950s	p. 164
Breaking the deadlock: Japan's informal diplomacy with the People's Republic of China, 1958-9	p. 181
Conclusion	p. 200
Index	p. 204
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