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KEYSTONE: THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF OKINAWA AND By Nicholas Evan Sarantakes VG+
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- Condition
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- ISBN-10
- 0890969698
- Book Title
- Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780890969694
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10
0890969698
ISBN-13
9780890969694
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1712944
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Keystone : the American Occupation of Okinawa and U. S. -Japanese Relations
Subject
International Relations / General, United States / General
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Series
Foreign Relations and the Presidency Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-044340
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
6
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
952/.29404
Synopsis
In the mid1990s, Okinawa became the focal point of a major crisis in U.S.Japanese relations. During this diplomatic incident many Americans were surprised to learn that the United States had military bases on this island. In fact, the United States had ruled Okinawa and its surrounding islands as a colony in everything but name from 1945 to 1972. The island had been the strategic keystone of the American postwar base system of double containment in the Pacific and the only spot in that chain that American officials insisted on governing under the legal cover of "residual sovereignty." Why had the United States insisted on administering an entire province of a country that it otherwise called an ally? And why did the Americans return Okinawa when they did? In this thoroughly researched, carefully argued work, Nicholas Evan Sarantakes argues that policy makers in Washington worried that the Japanese might return to their aggressive and expansionistic prewar foreign policies after the occupation of Japan ended. Even after it was abundantly clear that Japan posed no threat to its neighbors, the United States insisted on retaining the island, fearing that Japan might adopt a policy of neutrality during the Cold War. Sarantakes uses recently declassified documents to examine America's larger strategic purposes during this period. The story he tells includes soldiers fighting in combat, mobs rioting, diplomats navigating the dangerous waters of power, and clever politicians on both sides of the indigocolored Pacific taking highrisk gambles. In telling this tale, he brings our attention to an episode in American foreign relations that has been taken for granted for half a century., In the 1990s, Okinawa became the focal point of a crisis in US-Japanese relations. This text uses declassified documents to examine America's larger strategic purposes during this period, bringing to the readers' attention an episode in American foreign relations that is taken for granted.
LC Classification Number
DS889.16.S26 2001
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