基本説明
This volume is the result of a recent important historical discovery, namely the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura - one-time foreign minister, pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and 'spiritual godfather' of post-war Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force. Reproduced here are Nomura's Occupation-era correspondene with his American friends and associates (a total of 84 letters).
Full Description
This book is based on the recent discovery of the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura - Japanese admiral, one-time foreign minister, pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and "spiritual godfather" of postwar Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force. The volume reproduces Nomura's occupation-era correspondence with his American friends and associates, including Navy Secretary Daniel Kimball, SCAP Political Advisor William Sebald, former ambassadors William Castle and Joseph Grew, Army and Navy Journal owner John Callan O'Laughlin, as well as Admirals William Pratt, Arleigh Burke, Charles Turner Joy, Ralph Oftsie, and Harold Martin. The correspondence is extraordinarily revealing, and provides rich insights into domestic conditions in occupied Japan, U.S. policies toward occupied Japan, the Cold War in Asia, and Japan's eventual rearmament. In this way, the book enables readers to confront for themselves a hitherto largely neglected attempt at defining and cementing the post-WWII Japanese-U.S. partnership.
Contents
Preface; Contents; Important Persons in the Text; Introduction; 1: The Early Occupation Period, 1945—1947; 2: The Cold War and Japan's Economic Revival, 1948; 3: The Cold War and Japanese Security, January 1949—May 1950; 4: The Korean War and Japanese Security, June 1950—August 1951; 5: Japanese Independence and Defensibility, September 1951—December 1952; Appendix: Memorandum: Nomura's Audience with the Emperor, October 24, 1949; Bibliography; Index
