The British Commonwealth and the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945-1952
Subtitle: personal encounters and government assessments
By: edited by Ian Nish
Publisher: Global Oriental
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9789004242951; 9789004242968
Subjects: History; Foreign relations; British Commonwealth Occupation Force
Description: "In 'The British Commonwealth and the occupation of Japan', Nish presents papers by 23 authors on the nature of military occupation of Japan and the preparation of peace terms which led ultimately to the conclusion of the San Francisco Treaty (1951)"--provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Allied occupation of Japan: origins; title: Personal reminiscences of the early months of the occupation: Yokosuka and Tokyo, September 1945-March 1946 / W.G. Beasley; title: MacArthurian Japan: remembered and revised / Grant K. Goodman; title: Reminiscences of a misspent youth: Tokyo, 1946-49 / Hans H. Baerwald; title: Part II. British Commonwealth attitudes on Japan's occupation; title: Australia and the occupation of Japan / Geoffrey Bolton; title: New Zealand and the occupation of Japan / Gordon Daniels; title: Canada and the occupation of Japan / Hamish Ion; title: India and the occupation of Japan / Ian Nish; title: Impressions of a Japanese historian / Takemae Eiji; title: Part III. The British Commonwealth occupation force: personal views; title: An Australian's experiences / T.B. Millar; title: Some Royal Navy reflections / Walter Miller; title: RAF experiences / Hugh Cortazzi; title: A British army perspective / Ian Nish; title: A historian and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) / R. John Pritchard; title: Part IV. The Commonwealth pushes for peace negotiations; title: Commonwealth cooperation and rivalry / Kibata Yoichi; title: Truman, Attlee and the Korean War crisis / Roger Dingman; title: The Dulles-Yoshida talks, 1950-1951 / Hosoya Chihiro; title: Yoshida Shigeru and the political parties' difficulties over the question of the San Francisco Peace Treaty / Tozawa Kenji; title: Part V. The Commonwealth and the Japanese treaties; title: Britain's Labour Government and the Japanese peace / Peter Lowe; title: Hong Kong and San Francisco: Anglo-American debate on East Asia and the Japanese peace settlements / Roger Buckley; title: Britain and Japan, 1951: San Francisco and Tokyo / Hugh Cortazzi; title: San Francisco treaty-making and its implications for New Zealand / Ann Trotter; title: Australia, the Japanese Peace Treaty and the ANZUS Pact / Neville Meaney.