We, the Japanese people
Subtitle: World War II and the origins of the Japanese constitution
By: Dale M. Hellegers.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 826
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Armistices; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan; Constitutions -- Japan; Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: VOLUME ONE * WASHINGTON; title: Preface ix; title: Acknowledgments xv; title: 1. Unconditional Surrender and Its Legacies 1; title: 2. Uneasy Allies: Soviet Participation in the Pacific War 34; title: 3. Voices in the Wilderness 57; title: 4. The Road to Potsdam: Defining Unconditional Surrender 101; title: 5. Potsdam: The Politics of Deliverance 120; title: 6. "Come Hell or High Water": Terms of Surrender for Japan 138; title: 7. Planning for the Military Government ofJapan, 1942-1944 159; title: 8. "A Sunday School Flavor": Planning for; title: the Military Government ofJapan, 1945 190; title: 9. "The Velvet Glove": Policy Toward the Emperor; title: and Constitutional Reform 223; title: A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 249; title: Notes to Volume One 255; title: VOLUME TWO * TOKYO; title: lo. Under Siege: The Early Days of Occupation 405; title: 11. "Dust and Ashes": The Konoe Affair 438; title: 12. "Opaque, Bureaucratic Secretiveness":; title: The Shidehara Government Looks at Constitutional Reform 461; title: 13. Atomic Sunshine Boys: The Rise of the Government Section 487; title: 14. A "Top Secret" Constitutional Convention 518; title: 15. "For Your Convenience and Protection":; title: Negotiating with the Japanese Government 527; title: Epilogue 545; title: APPENDIXES; title: APPENDIX A The Preamble 553; title: APPENDIX B The Emperor and Miscellaneous Affairs 557; title: APPENDIX C Renunciation of War 576; title: APPENDIX D Civil Rights 580; title: APPENDIX E The Diet 612; title: APPENDIX F The Executive 630; title: APPENDIX G The Judiciary 645; title: APPENDIX H Public Finance 657; title: APPENDIX I Local Government 666; title: APPENDIX J A Comparison of the MacArthur Draft and the; title: Japanese Government Draft of 2 March 1946 673; title: A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 713; title: Notes to Volume Two 719; title: Selected Bibliography 795; title: Index 809.