Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

by Yukiko Koshiro

Book Overview

The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two former enemies could collaborate in creating democracy in postwar Japan. In the 1980s, however, when Japan increased...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231113498
• ISBN13: 9780231113496
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher