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Subtitle: a personal account of the secret U.S.-Japan Okinawa reversion negotiations
By: Wakaizumi Kei ; edited by John Swenson-Wright.
Contributors: Swenson-Wright, John.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Honolulu]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan; Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This volume affords a look at the sensitive issue of nuclear diplomacy between two critical Cold War allies, the United States and Japan, during the 1960s. Challenging the silence of the official bureaucracies in Washington and Tokyo, Wakaizumi Kei reveals the truth behind the secret 1969 agreement that ensured the eventual reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction in 1972. Revelation of this secret accord created considerable controversy in Japan when Wakaizumi's memoir was first published in 1994.

With the publication of this translation, his description of the events leading up to the closed-door agreement is available to an English-language audience for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-359) and index.
"In association with Program on Education and Training, East-West Center."