Japan - Foreign relations - 1945-1989 -- Diplomacy

Indeks : P.204-215 ; This book provides a datailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new stuctures and systems emerged, and when Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today.The book is devided into three parts, each containing three chapters : Part I looks at Japan in the eyes of the Anglo-American powers ; Part II at Japanese efforts to gain memberships of newly forming regional and international organizations and Part III considers the role of domestic factors in Japanese foreign policy. In chapter I , Shibayama Futoshi revals that, although attaching little importance to Japan fitted into definitions of the casus belli for a counter-nuclear assault. By early 1952, reflecting American predominance in East Asia and within the Anglo-American relationship, the UK came to agree with the US and accepted that an attack on Japan could constitute casus belli.