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We, the Japanese people : World War II and the origins of the Japanese constitution
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Hellegers, Dale M.. author
ISBN:
9780804734547
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2 v. (xvii, 826 pages.) ; 26 cm.
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Machine generated contents note: VOLUME ONE * WASHINGTON -- Preface ix -- Acknowledgments xv -- 1. Unconditional Surrender and Its Legacies 1 -- 2. Uneasy Allies: Soviet Participation in the Pacific War 34 -- 3. Voices in the Wilderness 57 -- 4. The Road to Potsdam: Defining Unconditional Surrender 101 -- 5. Potsdam: The Politics of Deliverance 120 -- 6. "Come Hell or High Water": Terms of Surrender for Japan 138 -- 7. Planning for the Military Government ofJapan, 1942-1944 159 -- 8. "A Sunday School Flavor": Planning for -- the Military Government ofJapan, 1945 190 -- 9. "The Velvet Glove": Policy Toward the Emperor -- and Constitutional Reform 223 -- A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 249 -- Notes to Volume One 255 -- VOLUME TWO * TOKYO -- lo. Under Siege: The Early Days of Occupation 405 -- 11. "Dust and Ashes": The Konoe Affair 438 -- 12. "Opaque, Bureaucratic Secretiveness": -- The Shidehara Government Looks at Constitutional Reform 461 -- 13. Atomic Sunshine Boys: The Rise of the Government Section 487 -- 14. A "Top Secret" Constitutional Convention 518 -- 15. "For Your Convenience and Protection": -- Negotiating with the Japanese Government 527 -- Epilogue 545 -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX A The Preamble 553 -- APPENDIX B The Emperor and Miscellaneous Affairs 557 -- APPENDIX C Renunciation of War 576 -- APPENDIX D Civil Rights 580 -- APPENDIX E The Diet 612 -- APPENDIX F The Executive 630 -- APPENDIX G The Judiciary 645 -- APPENDIX H Public Finance 657 -- APPENDIX I Local Government 666 -- APPENDIX J A Comparison of the MacArthur Draft and the -- Japanese Government Draft of 2 March 1946 673 -- A Note on Citations and Abbreviations 713 -- Notes to Volume Two 719 -- Selected Bibliography 795 -- Index 809.
Özet:
Based on scores of interviews with participants in the process, as well as exhaustive research in Japanese and American records, this is the definitive story of how the United States attempted to turn Japan into a democratic and peace-loving nation by drafting a new constitution for its former enemy-and then pretending that the Japanese had written it.
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