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: title: Historiography of U.S.-Japan relations; title: U.S. objectives and its plan of selling democracy to Japanese; title: Indoctrinating Japanese about U.S. democracy in practice; title: Planning the Perry centennial of 1953: commemoration of America's opening Japan; title: Non-governmental organization's cooperation: cultural exchange program as "human weapon"; title: Teaching democracy in Okinawa: the role of cultural center in a countryless land; title: The cancellation of Eisenhower's visit to Japan and the U.S.-Japan centennial festival of 1960.