IDs: Douglas MacArthur
Pauley Mission
Yoshida Shigeru
"Reverse
Course"
1960 Security Treaty Crisis
Tokyo Olympiad
I. Introduction
II. The
American Occupation
A. SCAP
(Supreme Commander for Allied Powers)
1.
General
MacArthur (meeting with Hirohito)
2.
Basic Assumptions
3.
Punitive Measures: Disarmament, "Decolonization," War
Trials; Hirohito
B. Far
East Commission
1.
Pauley Mission (1946)
2.
Flaws of Trials
C. Constructive Aspects
of Occupation
a. Constitution
(May 3, 1947)
• Sovereignty
• Emperor as Symbol of state
• Legislative Branch
• Human Rights
• Article 9 - "No war" Clause (and
Iraq)
D. Triangle of
Power: Liberal
Democratic Party, MITI,
Big Business
III. Steps to Prosperity
A. Yoshida
Shigeru (1878-1967)
1. Early Career
- Anglo-American Clique
- Anti-autarky
2. Post-War
- Foreign Minister (Pro-MacArthur)
- Prime Minister
- San Francisco
Treaty of 1951
- Mutual Security Treaty
- Self-Defense Forces
3. Japan's Recovery
- Dodge Line (1949)
- Korean & Vietnam Wars
- MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry)
- Patents
- Societal Cohesiveness
IV. Japan in Crisis
A. 1960 Security Crisis
- Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke
- National Student Federation (Zengakuren)
- Signing of New Security Pact 1960
B. Japan's Changing Foreign Relations
1. Peoples Republic of China (PRC),
2. Soviet Union (USSR)
3. United States
- Sato-Nixon Communique (Nov. 1969)
V. The New Japan
A. Olympic Games - Tokyo, 1964
1. Changing Japan, Changing Tokyo
