The Turning Point in Us-Japan Relations: Hanihara's Cherry Blossom Diplomacy in 1920-1930

by Misuzu Hanihara Chow and Kiyofuku Chuma

Book Overview

This book analyses two international incidents in the 1920s shocked Japan and changed the way in which the country looked at the West. In the Paris Peace Conference, Japanese proposed Racial Equality Bill was defeated. In 1924, the US passed the immigration law that singularly excluded Japanese from immigration. Little known today, the two incidents made significant impact on Japanese mind-set. Detailed study of the two incidents reveals how they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349581534
• ISBN13: 9781349581535
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.3"