U.S. cultural propaganda in Cold War Japan
Subtitle: promoting democracy 1948-1960
By: Chizuru Saeki ; with a preface by Matthew Young.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780773452497
Subjects: Propaganda, American -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.; Democracy -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Relations -- Japan.; Japan -- Relations -- United States.; Japan -- Civilization -- American influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.
Table of contents: value: Historiography of U.S.-Japan relations; value: U.S. objectives and its plan of selling democracy to Japanese; value: Indoctrinating Japanese about U.S. democracy in practice; value: Planning the Perry centennial of 1953: commemoration of America's opening Japan; value: Non-governmental organization's cooperation: cultural exchange program as "human weapon"; value: Teaching democracy in Okinawa: the role of cultural center in a countryless land; value: The cancellation of Eisenhower's visit to Japan and the U.S.-Japan centennial festival of 1960.