Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations

313 Pages·2009·0.89 MB·English

by  Kent E. Calder PhD - History

Pacific Alliance
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Pacific Alliance
Reviving U.S.–Japan Relations
Kent E. Calder
Yale University Press
New Haven & London
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Calder, Kent E.
Pacific alliance : reviving U.S.–Japan relations / Kent E. Calder.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN978-0-300-14672-1(alk. paper)
1. United States—Foreign economic relations—Japan. 2. Japan—Foreign
economic relations—United States. 3. United States—Foreign relations—Japan.
4. Japan—Foreign relations—United States. I. Title.
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To the people of U.S. Embassy Tokyo, and their vital role in bridging the
broad Pacific
Japan and the United States face each other, but across the broadest
ocean of them all.
—Edwin O. Reischauer
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Contents
List of Figures, ix
Preface, xi
A Note on Conventions, xv
List of Acronyms, xvi
Introduction, 1
1 The Quiet Crisis of the Alliance, 9
2 The World That Dulles Built, 31
3 The Notion of Alliance, 67
4 The Economic Basis of National Security, 89
5 Networks: Sinews of the Future, 115
6 An Alliance Transformed: U.S.–Japan Relations since 2001,134
7 The Global Challenge, 158
8 Alternative Paradigms, 178
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9 Prescriptions for the Future, 216
Notes, 239
Bibliography, 269
Index, 281
Figures
Figure 1.1. Trade Relations: China Eclipses the Pacific Alliance
Partners, 15
Figure 1.2. Growing Non-Japanese Asian-American Populations in
Major Northern California Cities, 18
Figure 2.1. Declining American Military Deployments in Japan
(1950–2006),39
Figure 2.2. The Widening U.S.–Japan Trade Deficit, 52
Figure 4.1. Japan’s Low Energy Self-Sufficiency, 93
Figure 4.2. Japan’s High and Rising Dependence on Middle
Eastern Oil, 95
Figure 4.3. Shifting Japanese Trading Patterns: Asia Rises as the
United States Declines, 98
Figure 4.4. Japan’s Growing Investment in American Long-Term
Securities, 102
Figure 4.5. Japan as Creditor and America as Debtor, 103
Figure 4.6. Japan’s Low Ratio of Inbound Foreign Direct
Investment to GDP, 105
Figure 4.7. Comparative Trends in Transpacific Investment, 108
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