Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. An important volume for historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars specializing in the twentieth century.
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 Japans security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former Japanese territory of South Korea, to Japans 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 Sato Eisaku administrations approach to nuclear deterrence and to the question of Okinawas 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; Japans understanding of 1960s United Nations peacekeeping operations; changes in national polity discourse in the 1960s; the Dalai Lamas 1967 visit to Japan; economic development in, and cultural exchange between, 1960s Japan and Spain; Japans science and technology interactions with the U.S.; 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.
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 ten-year period in East Asia.
Table of Contents
Introduction Robert D. Eldridge and Jason M. Morgan
Chapter 1 Japans Response to South Koreas May 16, 1961, Coup
Chizuko T. Allen
Chapter 2 Japan and North Korea in 1963: The Origins of the Abduction Issue
Araki Kazuhiro
Chapter 3 The Sat Eisaku Administration and Extended Nuclear Deterrence:
Nuclear Intimidation and Domestic Politics in Japan, 1964-1968
Arai Takafumi
Chapter 4 The Postwar Is Not Over for Japan Unless Okinawas Return to Its
Home Country Is Realized: Prime Minister Sats 1965 Visit to Okinawa,
Japan-U.S. Relations, and Domestic Dynamics
Robert D. Eldridge
Chapter 5 Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange during the Cold War: The Shimoda
Conference in 1967
Kusunoki Ayako
Chapter 6 Postwar Japan, Businessmen, and the Self-Defense Forces: The Growth
of Support Networks for Japans Postwar "Military" during the 1960s
Nakahara Masato
Chapter 7 The Phantom United Nations Cooperation Bill: Japans Lost Potential
to Become a Middle Power in the 1960s
Murakami Tomoaki
Chapter 8 New Waves: 1960s Japanese Cinema in the Eyes of the World
Tom Mes
Chapter 9 The Individual in (as) the Body Politic: Seich no Ie and
Anti-Abortion Kokutai
Spiritualism in 1960s Japan
Jason M. Morgan
Chapter 10 Tibetans in Japan in the 1960s: The Story of a 12-Year-Old
Refugee
Pema Gyalpo
Chapter 11 Japan and Spain in the 1960s: International Relations, Economy,
and Culture
Eduardo Gonzįlez de la Fuente
Chapter 12 Japans Economic, Scientific, and Technological Engagement with
the United States and International Economic Organizations in the 1960s
Erik M. Jacobs
Robert D. Eldridge is a specialist in Japanese political and diplomatic history and U.S.-Japan relations and the author of hundreds of books, essays, and reviews on these subjects.
Jason M. Morgan is Associate Professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. Morgan studies Japanese history, politics, and philosophy.
