K. K. Kawakami and U.S.-Japan Relations

The Forty-Year Road to Pearl Harbor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

K. K. Kawakami, the most prolific journalist writing on U.S.-Japan relations in the forty-years before Pearl Harbor, analyzed and described the interaction between the country of his birth and his adopted country. His more than 2,000 publications show a gradual decline in US-Japan relations from the early twentieth century to Japan’s attack on the US. K. K. Kawakami and U.S.-Japan Relations: The Forty-Year Road to Pearl Harbor provides a careful reading of his analysis of U.S.-Japan relations to show that both countries bear responsibility for the tragic clash in Hawaii. From the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) until the Japanese attack on Manchuria (1931), the United States bore a major responsibility with its anti-Japanese policies, racial discrimination, and failure to recognize Japan’s role in in the world but with Japan’s aggression in Manchuria, Japan became the primary actor. Relations between Japan and the U.S. declined gradually over a long period with both sides bearing responsibility.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-19
Mått:160 x 239 x 27 mm
Vikt:667 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666915198

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William D. Hoover is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toledo.

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The Japanese journalist Kiyoshi "Karl" Kawakami wrote numerous books and articles in both Japanese and English about the relationship between the United States and Japan throughout the four decades prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hoover examines Kawakami’s role as a “publicist” to both the American and the Japanese sides on various issues, attempting to ameliorate relations between the two nations. The result is a useful guide to this entire era of Japanese-American relations as perceived “at the time” by a knowledgeable correspondent. Hoover also evaluates what historians have written about these same issues and finds Kawakami an accurate and insightful reporter able to speak to both sides without cultural biases. This volume provides a comprehensive, nuanced overview of the concerns emerging throughout these four decades in terms of both Japanese and American diplomacy and public opinion. Reading “in the moment” articles as well as analytical historical perceptions of the same issues helps place these discussions in a useful and unique context, both contemporaneous and historical, that is seldom encountered and well worth exploration. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: The Historical Setting of Japanese-American Relations Chapter Two: Kawakami’s Japanese Roots and the Lure of America, 1873-1901 Chapter Three: Kawakami Analyzes the Beginnings of Tension between Japan and America, 1901-13Chapter Four: World War I and Expanding Japan-US Controversies, 1914-1919 Chapter Five: Growing Problems in US-Japan Relations, 1919-1921Chapter Six: Kawakami Describes Uplifting Factors but Sees Shadows in Japanese-American Relations, 1921-1930 Chapter Seven: Kawakami Confronts Declining Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1937Chapter Eight: Kawakami’s Dream of Amiable Japanese-American Relations Crushed, 1937-1941Chapter Nine: The United States Exerts Economic Pressure in Attempt to Reign in Japan Epilogue