Japan in the 1960s

Ten Years of Turning Points

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. From street battles over Japan’s security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former Japanese territory of South Korea, to Japan’s hosting the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1960s in Japan was a decade of turning points. This book is the first to see the 1960s as a historical subject in its own right and argues that the specificity and internal complexity rooted in East Asia during this period showed how East Asians were dynamic agents in shaping the decade. In this volume, contributors consider Japanese responses to a 1961 coup in the Republic of Korea; the Satō Eisaku administration’s approach to nuclear deterrence and to the question of Okinawa’s return from American control; U.S.-Japan intellectual exchange during the Cold War; support by Japanese businesspeople for the Self-Defense Forces; the “soft power” of Japanese cinema in the 1960s; Japan’s understanding of 1960s United Nations peacekeeping operations; changes in “national polity” discourse in the 1960s; the Dalai Lama’s 1967 visit to Japan; economic development in and cultural exchange between 1960s Japan and Spain; Japan’s science and technology interactions with the United States; and the earliest known, and suspected, cases of North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens. Much of the information in this volume has never appeared in English before.This is an important volume for historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars specializing in the twentieth century and those interested in cutting-edge history-writing about a transformative 10-year period in East Asia.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-26
Mått156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInside East Asia
Antal sidor200
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032796581

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Table of ContentsIntroduction Robert D. Eldridge and Jason M. MorganChapter 1 Japan’s Response to South Korea’s May 16, 1961, CoupChizuko T. AllenChapter 2 Japan and North Korea in 1963: The Origins of the Abduction IssueAraki KazuhiroChapter 3 The Satō Eisaku Administration and Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Nuclear Intimidation and Domestic Politics in Japan, 1964-1968Arai TakafumiChapter 4 “The Postwar Is Not Over for Japan Unless Okinawa’s Return to Its Home Country Is Realized”: Prime Minister Satō’s 1965 Visit to Okinawa, Japan-U.S. Relations, and Domestic DynamicsRobert D. EldridgeChapter 5 Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange during the Cold War: The Shimoda Conference in 1967Kusunoki AyakoChapter 6 Postwar Japan, Businessmen, and the Self-Defense Forces: The Growth of Support Networks for Japan’s Postwar "Military" during the 1960sNakahara MasatoChapter 7 The Phantom United Nations Cooperation Bill: Japan’s Lost Potential to Become a “Middle Power” in the 1960sMurakami TomoakiChapter 8 New Waves: 1960s Japanese Cinema in the Eyes of the WorldTom MesChapter 9 The Individual in (as) the Body Politic: Seichō no Ie and Anti-Abortion Kokutai Spiritualism in 1960s JapanJason M. MorganChapter 10 Tibetans in Japan in the 1960s: The Story of a 12-Year-Old RefugeePema GyalpoChapter 11 Japan and Spain in the 1960s: International Relations, Economy, and CultureEduardo González de la FuenteChapter 12 Japan’s Economic, Scientific, and Technological Engagement with the United States and International Economic Organizations in the 1960sErik M. Jacobs