Cold War democracy : the United States and Japan /
Miller, Jennifer M.,
Cold War democracy : the United States and Japan / Jennifer M. Miller. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Democracy as a state of mind -- Militarizing democracy -- The San Francisco peace treaty -- Bloody Sunagawa -- A breaking point -- Producing democracy.
During the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of Japan's economic recovery became clear, they placed prosperity at the core of a revised vision for their new ally's future, as Jennifer Miller shows in this fresh appraisal of the Cold War. Jennifer M. Miller examines the evolution of ideas about democracy during the Cold War by charting the development of the alliance between the United States and Japan from the postwar occupation into the 1960s. She argues that both countries were deeply concerned with sustaining a commitment to the idea of democracy in the aftermath of World War II. This allegiance to democracy as a rhetorical and ideological platform created new opportunities and constrained the choices of actors in each country and greatly influenced each country's policies regionally and globally. She shows that a "clash of visions" both inside Japan and the US and between diplomats and leaders on both sides of the alliance helped to sustain the commitment to democracy, rather than tearing it free. But, in doing so, many of the opportunities that democracy promised--both domestically and internationally--were lost.--
9780674240018
Cold War.
Democracy--History--Japan--20th century.
Democracy--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
JC423 / .C653 2019
Cold War democracy : the United States and Japan / Jennifer M. Miller. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Democracy as a state of mind -- Militarizing democracy -- The San Francisco peace treaty -- Bloody Sunagawa -- A breaking point -- Producing democracy.
During the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of Japan's economic recovery became clear, they placed prosperity at the core of a revised vision for their new ally's future, as Jennifer Miller shows in this fresh appraisal of the Cold War. Jennifer M. Miller examines the evolution of ideas about democracy during the Cold War by charting the development of the alliance between the United States and Japan from the postwar occupation into the 1960s. She argues that both countries were deeply concerned with sustaining a commitment to the idea of democracy in the aftermath of World War II. This allegiance to democracy as a rhetorical and ideological platform created new opportunities and constrained the choices of actors in each country and greatly influenced each country's policies regionally and globally. She shows that a "clash of visions" both inside Japan and the US and between diplomats and leaders on both sides of the alliance helped to sustain the commitment to democracy, rather than tearing it free. But, in doing so, many of the opportunities that democracy promised--both domestically and internationally--were lost.--
9780674240018
Cold War.
Democracy--History--Japan--20th century.
Democracy--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
JC423 / .C653 2019