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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.
Japan was occupied until 1952 when the Treaty of San Francisco came into effect. Japan–United States relations continued to evolve throughout the Cold War and into the 21st century, with periods of cooperation and occasional trade disputes.
Jan 9, 2018 · Michael Beckley , Yusaku Horiuchi and. Jennifer M. Miller. Article. Figures. Supplementary materials. Metrics. Save PDF. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Abstract. Japan's remarkable postwar growth spurt in the 1960s would not have been possible without Japan's alliance with the United States.
- Michael Beckley, Yusaku Horiuchi, Jennifer M. Miller
- 2018
- The Ikeda–Kennedy Summit
- The Dollar and US-Japan Relations Over Economic and Defense Issues
- A Schism in Policies Toward China
In October 1960, in his first administrative policy speech after taking office as prime minister, Ikeda Hayato stated that despite “defense expenditure being at its lowest,” Japan had “done very well to maintain peace and security and achieve remarkable economic development.” Ikeda had decided to shelve the issue of constitutional revision and make...
During his thousand days in office, the two things that most scared President Kennedy were the issues of “nuclear war and the payments deficit” (Schlesinger 1965). On several occasions, Kennedy reiterated that the American dollar was the very basis for the financial system of the West, and if it were to continue to serve that function at such uneas...
One of the key pending issues between the United States and Japan in the early 1960s was a divergence in their policies toward China. While Washington saw China as its potentially most dangerous rival in the Cold War, Tokyo was seeking ways to pursue a China policy of separating politics from the economy. When Ikeda initiated steps to move forward ...
- Makoto Iokibe, Takuya Sasaki
- 2017
Japan still needed the United States, and increasingly America needed Japan’s help containing this new threat. To move beyond the contentious debate that had started in the late 1960s about how much to remilitarize, the Japanese government had prepared a National Defense Program Outline in 1976.
In the 1920s, close economic ties between the United States and Japan existed. These were disrupted in the 1930s. In the 1950s, the countries rebuilt their strong economic relations. How did the close ties in the 1920s affect the rapid development of economic ties in the 1950s? Why did the economic ties
The main facts concerning the United States support of a system of multilateral trading order abroad during the 1950s are well known [Kaufman, 1982]. Scholars have also examined how Japan's Cold War partnership with the United States paved the way for its admission to GATT [Ishii, 1989; Akaneya, 1992; Eckes, 1995, pp. 168-77; and Forsberg, 1996].
