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Japan’s Alliance Politics and Defence Production by Neil Renwick; University of Oxford. Saint Antony's College is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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protection from external threat whilst rebuilding its economic, social and political systems. Thus Japan accepted a need for some form of (temporary) security arrangement with the United States as a quid pro quo for a peace treaty and the regaining of Japan's independence. The United States, finding itself engaged in a 'Cold War' with the Soviet Union, was intent on ensuring that Japan's strategic position and industrial potential was not lost to the West's 'containment' strategy. In return for its cooperation with the United States, Japan gained access to American financial, technological and military resources. Japan has adopted a technique of granting minimal concessions to US demands sufficient to ensure continued US support and assistance whilst leaving Japan free to concentrate on those national goals central to its particular interests. For the United States the fundamental rationale for the alliance was the competition between capitalist liberal democracy and communism and US interests defined by the global ideological and geopolitical balance. For Japan, the alliance was a necessary expediency to be exploited according to Japan's own domestically defined political agenda.

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Author

Neil Renwick; University of Oxford. Saint Antony's College

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230371453

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Social Sciences