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Book An Inoffensive Rearmament

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  • Author : Frank Kowalski
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2014-01-15
  • ISBN : 1612513735
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book An Inoffensive Rearmament written by Frank Kowalski and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Col. Frank Kowalski served as the Chief of Staff of the American military advisory group that helped establish the National Police Reserve, the predecessor to the Japan Self-Defense Forces during its first two years of existence. His work provides a detailed account of the manning, logistics, and personalities involved in standing up—on short notice—of a force of approximately 75,000, while sharing insights about the diplomatic, political, legal, and constitutional challenges his headquarters and his Japanese counterparts faced in rearming Japan in the wake of the sudden outbreak of the Korean War. Published in Japanese in 1969, this is the first English version of this edition, and includes a biographic section about Kowalski.

Book Will Japan Rearm

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  • Author : John K. Emmerson
  • Publisher : Washington : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 9780844731148
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Will Japan Rearm written by John K. Emmerson and published by Washington : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 1973 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the relationship between Japanese public opinion and the question of Japan’s complete rearmament with both conventional and nuclear weapons. In developing their conclusions, the authors drawn on the results of numerous public opinion polls and other barometers of official and popular sentiment on defense questions.

Book The Postwar Rearmament of Japanese Maritime Forces  1945 71

Download or read book The Postwar Rearmament of Japanese Maritime Forces 1945 71 written by James E. Auer and published by Irvington Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Rearmament and the United States  1952 1954

Download or read book Japanese Rearmament and the United States 1952 1954 written by William Victor Young and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Changes in Japanese Attitudes Toward Rearmament and Defense  1952 58

Download or read book Changes in Japanese Attitudes Toward Rearmament and Defense 1952 58 written by Leonard A. Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire

Download or read book In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire written by Barak Kushner and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire concludes that early East Asian Cold War history needs to be studied within the framework of post-imperial history. Japan’s surrender did not mean that the Japanese and former imperial subjects would immediately disavow imperial ideology. The end of the Japanese empire unleashed unprecedented destruction and violence on the periphery. Lives were destroyed; names of cities altered; collaborationist regimes—which for over a decade dominated vast populations—melted into the air as policeman, bureaucrats, soldiers, and technocrats offered their services as nationalists, revolutionaries or communists. Power did not simply change hands swiftly and smoothly. In the chaos of the new order, legal anarchy, revenge, ethnic displacement, and nationalist resentments stalked the postcolonial lands of northeast Asia, intensifying bloody civil wars in societies radicalized by total war, militarization, and mass mobilization. Kushner and Levidis’s volume follows these processes as imperial violence reordered demographics and borders, and involved massive political, economic, and social dislocation as well as stubborn continuities. From the hunt for “traitors” in Korea and China to the brutal suppression of the Taiwanese by the Chinese Nationalist government in the long-forgotten February 28 Incident, the research shows how the empire’s end acted as a catalyst for renewed attempts at state-building. From the imperial edge to the metropole, investigations shed light on how prewar imperial values endured during postwar Japanese rearmament and in party politics. Nevertheless, many Japanese actively tried to make amends for wartime transgressions and rebuild Japan’s posture in East Asia by cultivating religious and cultural connections. “This third book to emerge from Barak Kushner’s massive collaborative research project on the dissolution of Japan’s empire lays out a new geography of turning the ruins into social, economic, political, and cultural opportunities across Northeast Asia, and with lasting consequences. This book will change the way we research and teach ‘1945’ in a global context.” —Franziska Seraphim, Boston College “Writing imperial history, linking the prewar to postwar, is perilous because it must resist domestic taboos and social pressures. Today’s global society, where history incites extreme nationalism and serves as catalyst for conflict, calls for the creation of a new history of the end of empire as Kushner and his team have done in this volume.” —ASANO Toyomi, Waseda University

Book Japanese Rearmament in the Seventies

Download or read book Japanese Rearmament in the Seventies written by John J. Doran and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Rearmament

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  • Author : United States. Far East Command
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1950
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Japanese Rearmament written by United States. Far East Command and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection includes typescript correspondence and memos concerning Japanese rearmament and military relations with the United States in the years 1950 and 1953 (bulk). Originating bodies include: Japanese National Economic Research Institute; Headquarters Far East Command and Headquarters United States Army Forces, Far East; Radio Division of the Office of the Adjutant General, Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces Far East and the Headquarters Safety Advisory Group, Japan, 8065th Army Unit.

Book Japanese Rearmament

Download or read book Japanese Rearmament written by Makoto Takizawa and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Star Over Japan

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  • Author : Albert Axelbank
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 1136928057
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Black Star Over Japan written by Albert Axelbank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired, postwar Japanese ‘Peace Constitution’ which explicitly outlawed Japanese military forces and the use of war as an instrument of state policy. At the time of original publication the author argued that contemporary forces within Japan were combining to create a strong movement for revision of the constitution and for the acquisition of nuclear weapons by renewed and powerful military establishment. The American government, which had encouraged rearmament, was beginning to wonder about the world effect of an economically powerful rearmed Japan and was weighing the consequences of considering Japan its only major ally in East Asia. Albert Axelbank suggests that shifting international politics and the conservative momentum in Japan make revision of the constitution and the development of Japanese militarism and nuclear weapons almost inevitable.

Book Japanese Rearmament

Download or read book Japanese Rearmament written by Richard L. Pyatt and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report considers whether Japanese rearmament poses a security dilemma for U.S. interests in Northeast Asis. Examined are U.S. security interests in the region, the historical pressures and constraints for Japanese rearmament, and the evolving nature of the Japanese Self Defense Forces. This paper was written because military officers focus exclusively on Soviet-American security issues and fail to recognize developing long term global security trends. The conclusion supports building a stronger alliance with Japan which utilizes Japanese wealth and technology toward a shared destiny. The consequences of Japan-bashing and driving Japan toward unilateral security assumptions is not in the interest of either of these two great democracies.

Book Post war Japan as a Sea Power

Download or read book Post war Japan as a Sea Power written by Alessio Patalano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond the traditional perspective of viewing the modern Japanese military in light of the country's alliance with the US. The book places the institution in a historical context, analysing its imperial legacy and the role of Japan's shattering defeat in WWII in the post-war emergence of Japan as East Asia's 'sea power'.

Book Japan and Britain at War and Peace

Download or read book Japan and Britain at War and Peace written by Hugo Dobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from bitter conflict to peaceful alliance. Japan and Britain at War and Peace is a multilayered examination of this bilateral relationship with an emphasis on the issue of reconciliation. Reconciliation is explored in a broad sense and in a number of areas from economic cooperation and conflict, common concerns in the international system, public and media perceptions of each country, and the efforts of individuals, non-governmental organizations and governments to promote mutual understanding and find strategies to deal with dilemmas. With chapters from an international team of contributors from the UK, Japan, and Australia, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese and British history and international politics.

Book Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s

Download or read book Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s written by Makoto Iokibe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged, and when Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today. It examines the process of Japan's attempts to rehabilitate itself and reintegrate into a changing world, and the degree of success to which Japan achieved its goals in the political, economic and security spheres. The book is divided into three parts, each containing three chapters: Part I looks at Japan in the eyes of the Anglo-American powers; Part II at Japanese efforts to gain membership of newly forming regional and international organizations; and Part III considers the role of domestic factors in Japanese foreign policy making. Important issues are considered including Japanese rearmament and the struggle to gain entry into the United Nations. In contrast to much of the academic literature on post-war Japanese diplomacy, generally presenting Japan as a passive actor of little relevance or importance, this book shows that Japan did not simply sit passively by, but formed and attempted to instigate its own visions into the evolving regional and global structures. It also shows that whilst Japan did not always figure as highly as its politicians and policy makers may have liked in the foreign policy considerations of other nation states, many countries and organizations did attach a great deal of importance to re-building relations with Japan throughout this period of re-adjustment and transformation.

Book National Police Reserve

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  • Author : Thomas French
  • Publisher : Global Oriental
  • Release : 2014-06-19
  • ISBN : 9004266828
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book National Police Reserve written by Thomas French and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon years of research undertaken in the US Occupation archives, this book provides a history of Japan’s National Police Reserve (NPR), the precursor of today’s Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF). It is the first ever comprehensive and exclusively focused history of the force in any language. The book examines the domestic and international origins of the force, the American constabulary model upon which it was based, the NPR's character and operation, and its evolution into the GSDF. This volume provides numerous insights and fresh perspectives on the character of the NPR, the origins of the SDF, the US Occupation of Japan and Cold War era US-Japan relations.

Book Japan s Postwar Military and Civil Society

Download or read book Japan s Postwar Military and Civil Society written by Tomoyuki Sasaki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's so-called 'peace constitution' renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation, and bans the nation from possessing any war potential. Yet Japan also maintains a large, world-class military organization, namely the Self-Defence Forces (SDF). In this book, Tomoyuki Sasaki explores how the SDF enlisted popular support from civil society and how civil society responded to the growth of the SDF. Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society details the interactions between the SDF and civil society over four decades, from the launch of rearmament in 1950. These interactions include recruitment, civil engineering, disaster relief, anti-SDF litigation, state financial support for communities with bases, and a fear-mongering campaign against the Soviet Union. By examining these wide-range issues, the book demonstrates how the militarization of society advanced as the SDF consolidated its ideological and socio-economic ties with civil society and its role as a defender of popular welfare. While postwar Japan is often depicted as a peaceful society, this book challenges such a view, and illuminates the prominent presence of the military in people's everyday lives.