Creating People of Plenty
Subtitle: The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950-1960
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780873387064
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Development economics; International economics; International relations; Japan; International Economic Relations; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; USA; International - Economics; Foreign relations; International Relations - General; Foreign economic relations; United States
Description: "This study investigates how Japan grew from an economically limited country to the threshold of industrial power. The author describes Japanese economic development in the 1950s as one of the major achievements of the Eisenhower administration. In her admirably clear account of this chapter in U.S.-Japanese relations, Sayuri Shimizu incorporates Japanese as well as American sources. in the process she explains how and why the United States became so intractably involved in Southeast Asia.

Not least, she tells an ironic and instructive story of how the United States helped build an economy that later it so bitterly resented."--BOOK JACKET.