The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era - Hardcover

Pyle, Kenneth B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0844737984 ISBN 13: 9780844737980

Publisher: AEI Press, 1992

Synopsis

Like the German Question in Europe, the Japanese Question presents the spectre of a resurgent nation with immense economic power and a history that prompts concen whether it will again threaten its neighbours. Although these fears are openly expressed in Asia, Americans have up till now avoided them. This book, which shows how they underlie the paradoxes of US Japanese relations. The author, a leading scholar of the politics of the Japanese nationalism, describes Japan's strategy in the postwar era of relying on US defense while creating its economic miracle. Despite Japan's growing power and pride, he says, its effort to chart a new course in the 1980s proved unsuccessful, as its response to the Persian Gulf crisis showed. A final section of the book examines Japan's economic domination of Asia and discusses whether we should try to contain Japan within a bilateral relationship or to enlist it in a collective security arrangement for the Pacific.

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About the Author

Kenneth Pyle is a professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: AEI Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844737984
• ISBN 13: 9780844737980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144