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Aug 26, 2019 · Read this article. This article examines the role of US covert action in establishing and perpetuating the political dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan during the Cold War. The study sheds light on the modalities of the US intelligence community’s involvement in the Japanese political process, evaluates the effectiveness ...
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- Long-Laid Foundations of Bilateral Relations
- Division Between Leadership and The People of Japan
- Revelation of Weaknesses
- Japan Remains A Sitting Duck
- Many Faces of Military Cooperation
- Mutual Benefits as Joint-Front
- The Future of The US-Japan Alliance and Japan’s International Relations
Despite earlier historical encounters between the two countries, it is arguable that the contemporary hegemonic American influence over Japan is rooted in the aftermath of the Second World War. To end the war, the US dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. After Japan’s unco...
The end of the occupation did not diminish American influence and presence in Japan as the bilateral security pact that restored Japanese sovereignty allowed the US forces to remain on Japanese soil. Extraterritoriality clauses that protected US military personnel from e.g. local criminal prosecution, and the continued Japanese reliance on the US f...
Ironically, the originally American-drafted constitution plays a central role in legitimizing Japanese participation limitations as a partner in US-led military endeavors overseas. For example, the US pressured Japan for further joint participationin international operations during the Gulf War (1990-1991) in the Middle East. However, restricted by...
Since self-sufficient self-defense is an obvious answer to the Japanese dilemma, what is it exactly that makes constitutional amendment so difficult? Constitution Article 96 specifies amendment details. Technically the current supermajority of the Liberal Democratic party both in the House of Councilors and in the House of Representatives could ass...
Japanese leadership agrees that in order to protect Japan from the possibility of an armed attack military cooperation with the US is a necessity. Furthermore, deployment of American soldiers on Japanese soil also ensures American retaliation against a joint enemy in case of such an attack. Therefore, much of the cooperation practicalities involve ...
As Japan’s safety in an armed attack is guaranteed through the agreements it has with the US, cooperation through international organizations that work towards creating a peaceful international community is mutually beneficial. Addressing security issues as a joint-front has been clearly visible on platforms such as the United Nations (UN), Interna...
Without a constitutional amendment, Japan remains reliant on US military cooperation to protect its sovereignty. This reliance ensures continued American hegemonic influence over Japan. Japan can expect to either sink more deeply under American influence or draw itself out of it. For example, it is possible that the Japanese leadership will give in...
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Oct 16, 2020 · Under a shroud of secrecy and with the backing of the United States War Department, the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) trained and graduated nearly 6,000 linguists—the majority of whom were Japanese Americans.
In the 1950s and 1960s Japan entered into a military alliance with the United States, and experienced unprecedented economic growth by sheltering under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, taking full advantage of U.S.-backed free trade schemes, and supplying American wars in Korea and Vietnam.
Sep 24, 2021 · Between 1945 and 1952, the U.S. occupying forces, led by General Douglas A. MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms. The groundwork for the Allied occupation of a defeated Japan was laid during the war.
While accommodation to the preferences and practices of the US intelligence community was a defining feature of the first decades after the war, the Japanese intelligence community—like the military overall—was also stifled by clear and insistent public opposition to any practice redolent of wartime governance.
