Japan in the 1960s

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Robert D. Eldridge is a specialist in Japanese political and diplomatic history and U.S.-Japan relations and the author of hundreds of books, essays, and reviews on these subjects.

Jason M. Morgan is Associate Professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. Morgan studies Japanese history, politics, and philosophy.

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Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. An important volume for historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars specializing in the twentieth century.

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Table of Contents

Introduction Robert D. Eldridge and Jason M. Morgan

Chapter 1 Japan's Response to South Korea's May 16, 1961, Coup

Chizuko T. Allen

Chapter 2 Japan and North Korea in 1963: The Origins of the Abduction Issue

Araki Kazuhiro

Chapter 3 The Sat Eisaku Administration and Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Nuclear Intimidation and Domestic Politics in Japan, 1964-1968

Arai Takafumi

Chapter 4 The Postwar Is Not Over for Japan Unless Okinawa's Return to Its Home Country Is Realized: Prime Minister Sat's 1965 Visit to Okinawa, Japan-U.S. Relations, and Domestic Dynamics

Robert D. Eldridge

Chapter 5 Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange during the Cold War: The Shimoda Conference in 1967

Kusunoki Ayako

Chapter 6 Postwar Japan, Businessmen, and the Self-Defense Forces: The Growth of Support Networks for Japan's Postwar "Military" during the 1960s

Nakahara Masato

Chapter 7 The Phantom United Nations Cooperation Bill: Japan's Lost Potential to Become a Middle Power in the 1960s

Murakami Tomoaki

Chapter 8 New Waves: 1960s Japanese Cinema in the Eyes of the World

Tom Mes

Chapter 9 The Individual in (as) the Body Politic: Seich no Ie and Anti-Abortion Kokutai
Spiritualism in 1960s Japan

Jason M. Morgan

Chapter 10 Tibetans in Japan in the 1960s: The Story of a 12-Year-Old Refugee

Pema Gyalpo

Chapter 11 Japan and Spain in the 1960s: International Relations, Economy, and Culture

Eduardo González de la Fuente

Chapter 12 Japan's Economic, Scientific, and Technological Engagement with the United States and International Economic Organizations in the 1960s

Erik M. Jacobs