Unconditional Democracy
Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Published on 1. September 2013
773 pages
978-0-8179-7443-5 (ISBN)
Description
The difficult mission of a regime change: Toshio Nishi gives an account of how America converted the Japanese mindset from war to peace following World War II.
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02/2004
Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
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Toshio Nishi is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1991 to the present, Nishi has been a distinguished guest professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan, and from 2004 a graduate school professor at Nihon University in Tokyo.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Personal Introduction
- PART ONE: FROM EMPIRE TO DEMOCRACY
- 1. An Overview of Prewar Japan
- 2. Unconditional Surrender
- 3. MacArthur's Japan
- 4. Housecleaning
- 5. Freedom of Thought in Public
- 6. The New Constitution
- PART TWO: FROM INDOCTRINATION TO EDUCATION
- 7. The 1890 Rescript on Education
- 8. Democracy Now or Never
- 9. The United States Education Mission to Japan
- 10. The Facade of Japanese Autonomy
- PART THREE: THE PRICE OF PEACE
- 11. The Red Purge
- 12. The Peace Treaty
- Summary and Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
