The Occupation of Japan 1945–1952

Following its defeat in World War II, Japan was placed under the control of SCAP GHQ headed by General Douglas MacArthur. Initially the Occupation promoted policies of demilitarization and democratization. A new Japanese constitution which pursued pacifism was established. However, as the Cold War intensified, policies switched in the direction of economic recovery, and it was contended that Japan should take the anti-Communist pro-America path. In 1951, at the height of the Korean War, the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Japan-US Security Treaty were concluded as a fixed set.

Winner of the 2015 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize for academic writing on politics, economics, and history, this book provides a wide view of the seven years of the Occupation of Japan which led to the “postwar system” that has continued into the twenty-first century.

FUKUNAGA Fumio
Fukunaga Fumio, Ph.D., was born in 1953 in Hyogo Prefecture, graduated from Kobe University Faculty of Law in 1976, and completed a doctorate at Kobe University Graduate School of Law in 1985. Beginning in 1987, he taught at Himeji Dokkyo University successively as a lecturer, associate professor, and professor before joining Dokkyo University as a professor in 2001. He specializes in political science and the political and diplomatic history of Japan and is the author of numerous works including Senryō-ka chūdō seiken no keisei to hōkai: Minsei-kyoku to Nihon Shakaitō [Formation and Collapse of Middle-of-the-Road Governments under the Occupation: Government Section and the Japan Socialist Party] (Iwanami Shoten, 1997) and Ōhira Masayoshi: “Sengo hoshu” towa nanika [Ōhira Masayoshi: What Is Postwar Conservatism?] (Chūōkōron Shinsha, 2008). He co-authored Sengo towa nanika, jōgekan [Defining the Postwar Period, Vol. 1–2] (Maruzen, 2014), and co-edited Sengo Nihon dai 2-kan: Senryō to kaikaku [Postwar Japan Vol. 2: Occupation and Reform] (Iwanami Shoten, 1995), Sengo Nihon no saishōtachi [Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan] (Chūō Kōronsha, 1995), and Daini no “sengo” no keisei katei: 1970-nendai Nihon no seijiteki, gaikōteki saihen [Japan’s Postwar History Revisited: Politics and Diplomacy in the 1970s] (Yūhikaku Publishing, 2015).

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JIIA series
History

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥3,000 + tax
ISBN 9784866581255
210 mm x 148 mm / 420 pp. / March 2021

eBook
ISBN 9784866582085 (ePub)
ISBN 9784866582146 (PDF)

Preface / Introduction: The Occupiers and the Occupied / 1. Defeat and Occupation / 2. Reform under the Occupation and Fresh Start for Political Parties / 3. Trajectory of the Middle-of-the-Road Government / 4. Changing Course in Occupation Policies / 5. The San Francisco Peace Treaty / 6. The Occupation and Postwar Japan / Afterword / Bibliography / Development of Postwar Political Parties / Chronology of the Occupation of Japan / Index

戦後、ＧＨＱのもとで非軍事・民主化が進んだ日本だが、冷戦中は日本を「反共親米」にすべく、それまでの占領政策は経済復興に転換される。サンフランシスコ講和条約も日米安保条約とセットでの締結となった。この「戦後体制」が創られた日本占領7年間の全貌を描く。

福永 文夫
1953年(昭和28年)、兵庫県生まれ。76年神戸大学法学部卒業、85年神戸大学大学院法学研究科博士課程単位取得満期退学。87年姫路獨協大学専任講師就任。同大学助教授、教授を経て、2001年から獨協大学教授。博士(政治学)。専攻、日本政治外交史・政治学(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)。

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