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America's Geisha Ally / Naoko Shibusawa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (407 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674043565
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/27305209045 22
LOC classification:
  • E183.8.J3 S52 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Japanese Names -- Introduction -- 1 Women and Children First -- 2 "Like a Boy of Twelve" -- 3 Sunday at Hirohito's -- 4 A Transpacific Treason Trial -- 5 A Kamikaze Goes to College -- 6 Channeling Atomic Guilt -- 7 Hollywood's Japan -- Epilogue: Rising Sun Redux -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Japanese Names -- Introduction -- 1 Women and Children First -- 2 "Like a Boy of Twelve" -- 3 Sunday at Hirohito's -- 4 A Transpacific Treason Trial -- 5 A Kamikaze Goes to College -- 6 Channeling Atomic Guilt -- 7 Hollywood's Japan -- Epilogue: Rising Sun Redux -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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