Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two former enemies could collaborate in creating democracy in postwar Japan. In the 1980s, however, when Japan increased its investment in the American market, the world witnessed a revival of the rhetoric of U.S.-Japanese racial confrontation. Koshiro argues that this perceived economic aggression awoke the dormant racism that lay beneath the deceptively smooth cooperation between the two cultures. This pathbreaking study is the first to explore the issue of racism in U.S.-Japanese relations. With access to unexplored sources in both Japanese and English, Koshiro is able to create a truly international and cross-cultural study of history and international relations.

ISBN 0231113498   Pages 304 ISBN13 9780231113496 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Columbia University Press   Weight (grammes) 410 Imprint Columbia University Press   Published in New York Format Paperback   Series editor Gluck, Carol, Hunt, Michael Publication date 04 Mar 1999   Series title United States and Pacific Asia: Studies in Social, Economic and Political Non-book description x, 295 p. ;   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress 98039912   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 327.52073   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Acknowledgments
		A Note on the Origin of Modern Racism
		Introduction: Race in U.S.-Japanese Relations		1
1		The International Framework for Postwar Japanese-American Racism		15
2		Race and Culture: Person to Person		49
3		Racial Equality, Minorities, and the Japanese Constitution		89
4		Japanese Overseas Emigration		123
5		The Problem of Miscegenation		159
		Epilogue: The Aftermath - The Lesson of the Occupation		201
		A Note on the Source Citations		221
		Notes		223
		Index		285

A bold exploration of the difficult subject of American and Japanese racist attitudes. Foreign Affairs

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