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Tables of Contents for The Clash
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xvii
I. Irresistible Force, Immovable Object
3
29
Two Peoples
3
4
First Encounters with a New West
7
2
The Appearance of the Americans
9
8
Harris's Triumphs, Ii's Assassination
17
6
The Americans and the Birth of Modern Japan
23
9
II. Joining the Club (1868-1900)
32
33
Two Systems
32
8
Two Systems, Two Imperialisms
40
5
Joining the Imperialists' Club: Ito, Gresham, and the "Pigtail War"
45
8
Clash Over Hawaii
53
4
Joining the Imperialists' Club: The "Splendid Little War" and a Not-So-Splendid War
57
5
When Americans and Japanese Were Friends
62
3
III. The Turn (1900-1912)
65
34
Powers and the Boxers
65
8
Yamagata, Roosevelt, and the Russo-Japanese War
73
11
Manchuria: The First Clash
84
3
The Crisis in California--and Beyond
87
5
Manchuria: The Second Clash
92
7
IV. Revolution, War, and Race (1912-1920)
99
29
An Old Europe, a New Asia
99
2
Yamagata, Wilson, and the "Frontier" of a Revolutionary China
101
3
California: "Another Race Problem"
104
2
The Two-Front War: 1914-1918
106
10
Siberia: The Bitter Choice
116
4
Paris
120
8
V. Creating the New Era: From Washington to Mukden (1921-1931)
128
32
Hoover, Lamont, and the New Era
128
4
Treaties of Washington, Black Chambers of New York City
132
12
"The Tranquillizing Processes of Reason": The 1924 Immigration Act
144
2
China Once Again
146
7
"They Still Need Us--and That Is Probably What Annoys Them": 1929-1931
153
7
VI. The Slipknot: Part 1 From Mukden
160
26
The 1930s as a Model for U.S.-Japan Relations
160
1
The Crises in Wall Street and Manchuria
161
13
Takahashi, Hull, and the Race Between Trade and Politics Toward War
174
8
Wars and Actors
182
4
VII. The Slipknot: Part 2... to Pearl Harbor
186
28
Tightening the Knot
186
5
The Co-Prosperity Sphere
191
6
The Attempt to Cut the Knot: Pearl Harbor
197
17
VIII. World War II: The Clash Over Two Visions
214
43
Tenno versus the "Laws of the Machine"
214
4
California Goes to War: The Relocation Camps, and Hollywood
218
5
The Failure of the Japanese Machine
223
8
"We Are Being Played for Suckers": The Enemy Begins to Replace the Friend in U.S. Postwar Planning
231
8
Truman and the Destruction of the Yalta System
239
7
The "Double Shock"--and the End
246
11
IX. To Create a New Japan: Reforming, Reversing, Warring (1945-1951)
257
39
"Give Me Bread or Give Me Bullets"
257
5
The First Occupation (1945-47)
262
8
The Second Occupation (1947-50): The Americans
270
5
The Second Occupation (1947-50): Japanese, Americans, and Chinese
275
8
Korea: The War for Japan--"A Gift of the Gods"
283
13
X. The 1950s: The Pivotal Decade
296
29
"Japan...Has a Unique Capacity for Good or Evil"
296
5
Deming, Dulles, and the Great Choice: China or Vietnam?
301
9
A New Cold War
310
4
The Explosion Over the Security Pact (1957-60)
314
11
XI. A "Miracle" Appears: China Reappears (1960-1973)
325
34
The "Miracle" of Ikeda--and Other "Merchants of Transistors"
325
7
Kennedy, Ikeda, and the Illusion of "Equal Partnership"
332
6
Johnson, Sato, and Vietnam
338
10
Nixon and Sato--or "Trading with the Enemy"
348
4
The Nixon Shocks
352
7
XII. The End of an Era (Since 1973)
359
37
The Watershed of the Cold War Era
359
4
Needed: American Bodies, Not American Banks--Or, Japan as Number One
363
7
The 1980s: From "Ron-Yasu"
370
3
...to Two Competing Capitalisms
373
6
...to "Relations Have Not Been So Low Since 1960"
379
2
"The Cold War Is Over, the Japanese Won"
381
4
The Gulf War: A Case Study of the Clash
385
4
The 1990s: "American Policy in Asia Begins with Japan"
389
7
CONCLUSION. The Clash: The Present in Retrospect
396
11
Notes
407
54
Bibliography
461
20
Acknowledgments
481
4
Index
485