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The British Commonwealth and the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 : personal encounters and government assessments /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nish, Ian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Global Oriental, 2013.
Subjects:
Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
Commonwealth countries > Foreign relations > Japan.
Japan > Foreign relations > Commonwealth countries.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Japan.
Japan > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
British Commonwealth Occupation Force.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Allied occupation of Japan: origins. Personal reminiscences of the early months of the occupation: Yokosuka and Tokyo, September 1945-March 1946 / W.G. Beasley
  • MacArthurian Japan: remembered and revised / Grant K. Goodman
  • Reminiscences of a misspent youth: Tokyo, 1946-49 / Hans H. Baerwald
  • Part II. British Commonwealth attitudes on Japan's occupation. Australia and the occupation of Japan / Geoffrey Bolton
  • New Zealand and the occupation of Japan / Gordon Daniels
  • Canada and the occupation of Japan / Hamish Ion
  • India and the occupation of Japan / Ian Nish
  • Impressions of a Japanese historian / Takemae Eiji
  • Part III. The British Commonwealth occupation force: personal views. An Australian's experiences / T.B. Millar
  • Some Royal Navy reflections / Walter Miller
  • RAF experiences / Hugh Cortazzi
  • A British army perspective / Ian Nish
  • A historian and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) / R. John Pritchard
  • Part IV. The Commonwealth pushes for peace negotiations. Commonwealth cooperation and rivalry / Kibata Yoichi
  • Truman, Attlee and the Korean War crisis / Roger Dingman
  • The Dulles-Yoshida talks, 1950-1951 / Hosoya Chihiro
  • Yoshida Shigeru and the political parties' difficulties over the question of the San Francisco Peace Treaty / Tozawa Kenji
  • Part V. The Commonwealth and the Japanese treaties. Britain's Labour Government and the Japanese peace / Peter Lowe
  • Hong Kong and San Francisco: Anglo-American debate on East Asia and the Japanese peace settlements / Roger Buckley
  • Britain and Japan, 1951: San Francisco and Tokyo / Hugh Cortazzi
  • San Francisco treaty-making and its implications for New Zealand / Ann Trotter
  • Australia, the Japanese Peace Treaty and the ANZUS Pact / Neville Meaney.