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Article: Japan in the World.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 1994
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Japan in the World, edited by Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1993. iv, 365 pp. $42.50 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper).
The impact of the United States upon Japan following the latter's defeat in the Second World War was so far-reaching that some have referred to this intervening period as Japan's "second opening" - the first opening was of course the one occasioned by the arrival of the American Commodore Matthew Perry and his Black Ships in the mid-nineteenth century. It was within the framework of subsequent U.S. nuclear protection, that Japan's post-war phenomenal economic success was achieved. Though today the ...