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

Koshiro, Yukiko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231113498 ISBN 13: 9780231113496

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Yukiko Koshiro is a visiting scholar at Williams College and the East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is associate editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231113498
• ISBN 13: 9780231113496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304