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The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History
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by Walter Lafeber
Sales Rank: 611894
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Cover Type: Paperback with 544 pages
Published by: W. W. Norton & Company September 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0393318370
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0393318371
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Reader Reviews
This book was required reading for my seminar on the US-Japan Alliance precisely because it gave such a good overview of the two nations' history together. Starting essentially with Perry's opening of the Japanese ports to American trade, LaFeber does a good job of chronicling the details of US-Japan relations up to the early 90s. Generally, this is a story of the transformation of Japan first into an authoritarian but developed state and then into a pacifist and American-dominated ally. For the most part, his arguments are factual and unbiased, but the book often seems determined to blame the US (for WWII, for example), when there is no compelling reason to do so and even in cases where there is little reason to place any blame. He reserves his greatest scorn, however, for those like John Hay who thought to tame the Japanese machine with trade (echoing Cobden). It sometimes seems as though he's grinding axes in the present rather than arguing about the past. It also should be noted how badly he miscalled the recession of the 90s, which he thought was a chance for the bureaucrats to "refocus" the economy, which would soon come rumbling back. All in all, however, once the author's biases are detected, a rather good - and very readable - scholarly overview of US-Japan relations
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