Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

by Koshiro, Yukiko

• ISBN13: 9780231113496
• ISBN10: 0231113498
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two former enemies could collaborate in creating democracy in postwar Japan. In the 1980s, however, when Japan increased its investment in the American market, the world witnessed a revival of the rhetoric of U.S.-Japanese racial confrontation.Koshiro argues that this perceived economic aggression awoke the dormant racism that lay beneath the deceptively smooth cooperation between the two cultures.This pathbreaking study is the first to explore the issue of racism in U.S.-Japanese relations. With access to unexplored sources in both Japanese and English, Koshiro is able to create a truly international and cross-cultural study of history and international relations.

Author Biography

Yukiko Koshiro is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and associate editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Note on the Origin of Modern Racism	p. xi
Introduction: Race in U.S.-Japanese Relations	p. 1
The International Framework for Postwar Japanese-American Racism	p. 15
Race and Culture: Person to Person	p. 49
Racial Equality, Minorities, and the Japanese Constitution	p. 89
Japanese Overseas Emigration	p. 123
The Problem of Miscegenation	p. 159
Epilogue: The Aftermath--The Lesson of the Occupation	p. 201
A Note on the Source Citations	p. 221
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 285
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