LEADER 04064cam a2200589 i 4500001 99131231556606421 005 20241121030405.0 008 240507t20252025enk b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2024005942 020 9781032557120 |qhardcover 020 1032557125 |qhardcover 020 9781032557137 |qpaperback 020 1032557133 |qpaperback 020 |z9781003431886 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1418993451 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dYDX |dIG# 042 pcc 043 a-ja---n-us--- 050 00 DS889.16 |b.K564 2025 082 00 952.04 |223/eng/20240522 100 1 Kimura, Masami |c(Historian), |eauthor. 245 10 Cultures of modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War alliance / |cMasami Kimura. 264 1 Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY : |bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |c2025. 264 4 |c©2025 300 256 pages ; |c25 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 American views of Japan and rationales for occupation reform -- Japanese analyses of problems with Japanese democracy -- Emperorship reformed or abolished? -- Democratized constitutional monarchy as a middle ground -- America's Cold War and Japan's place in a new Asian order -- Japan's diverging internationalist paths to peace and security. 520 "Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance reconsiders the origins of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on "modernization" ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s-early 1950s. Mobilizing a wealth of English and Japanese-language sources, the author identifies parallel groups of modernist thinkers in America and Japan - including politicians, bureaucrats, intellectuals, scholars, and journalists - and follows how different strands of thought played out within an evolving political environment, forming a "middle ground." Despite their differences, both the Americans and the Japanese believed in the progressive view of history, considered Japan to be still underdeveloped, and therefore agreed on the advisability of democratizing Japan - which included constitutional reform. Whether proponents or opponents of the U.S.-Japan Cold War alliance system, they also shared the vision of Wilsonian internationalism and devised similar designs for a postwar Asian order where Japan would rejoin. Thus, by showing how the confluence of modernist cultures helped forge a postwar relationship between the two, this study contributes to the field of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by supplementing and reorienting the scope of scholarship, one that has been predominantly America-centered and framed along the line of diplomatic narratives informed by Cold War politics"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Democracy |zJapan |xHistory. 650 0 Cold War. 651 0 Japan |xHistory |yAllied occupation, 1945-1952. 651 0 Japan |xPolitics and government |y1945-1989. 651 0 Japan |xForeign relations |zUnited States. 651 0 United States |xForeign relations |zJapan. 650 6 Guerre froide. 651 6 Japon |xHistoire |y1945-1952 (Occupation alliée) 651 6 Japon |xPolitique et gouvernement |y1945-1989. 651 6 Japon |xRelations extérieures |zÉtats-Unis. 776 08 |iOnline version:Kimura, Masami (Historian). |tCultures of modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War alliance |dNew York, NY : Routledge, 2024 |z9781003431886 |w(DLC) 2024005943 830 0 Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 902 010019312 |wcopy |120241113134842.0 910 |cC0710mon |d3110-10 |gYBP 914 (OCoLC)on1418993451 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20241120 |eprocessed |f1418993451 960 |o1 |zUSD 961 |fASP |m311010 |nCloth 980 20671558 |i180.00 982 |cf 984 20240905 |b081311 |cYBP-US