Japan's Foreign Relations and Role in the Late 20th Century

Japan's most important tie has been with the United States. Japan's mutual defense treaty with the United States is central to its security.

Japanese-American Relations at the Turn of the Century, 1900–1922

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the relationship between the United States and Japan was marked by increasing tension and corresponding ...

20th-century international relations - Japan, Challenge, WWII

20th-century international relations - Japan, Challenge, WWII: When war broke out in Europe, the Japanese occupation of China was nearing its greatest ...

History of Japanese foreign relations - Wikipedia

Japan was a very minor player in international affairs in the late 1940s, but its economy revived in part as a supply base for the Korean War. Non-involvement ...

Foreign relations of Japan - Wikipedia

Japan rapidly modernized and built a strong military. It was imperialistic seeking control of nearby areas—with major wars against China and Russia. It gained ...

Twentieth-Century Japanese Diplomacy＊

These negative aspects of Japan's foreign policy became particularly clear at the end of the Cold War and the Gulf War. The final decade of the twentieth ...

Japanese Society in the Twentieth Century

During the years between 1895 and 1904, bridging the Sino- and Russo-Japanese wars, Japan turned into a mass-oriented, urban nation.

International Relations, Trade, Security - Japan - Britannica

Japan - International Relations, Trade, Security: The Japan that returned to the international community in 1952 was considerably reduced in territory and ...

Occupation and Reconstruction of Japan, 1945–52

Between 1945 and 1952, the US occupying forces, led by General Douglas A. MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms.

The Meiji Restoration and Modernization - Asia for Educators

Japan had regained complete control of its foreign trade and legal system, and, by fighting and winning two wars (one of them against a major European power, ...

The Past, Present, and Future of Japanese Foreign Relations - jstor

bureaucrats and economic planners who later returned to play an important role in ... It is clear that, at the end of the twentieth century, becoming broader and ...

Japan's “five-foot giant” of international relations

My book is a social biography of Japan's best-known international leader of the late 20th century, the diplomat Sadako Ogata (1927–2019).

History Issues Q&A | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Q3: What kind of reparations did Japan make to the countries and people who suffered during the previous war? · Reparations amounting to US$200 million (72 ...

A look at Japan's Foreign Policy and Relations with Major Powers

The United States and Japan have had a strong political, economic, and military relationship since the mid-20th Century. Japan is a significant ...

The U.S.-Japan Alliance | Council on Foreign Relations

In the latter part of the twentieth century, Japan began to carve out a larger role within the bilateral relationship. In 1992, a year after ...

Japan's Foreign Relations: Balancing the United States and China

Ken Moriyasu examines Japan's foreign relations and how those relationships play a role in shaping Japan's ties with both the U.S. and China.

“Historical Issues” in Japanese Diplomacy Toward Neighboring ...

card” held a larger role in foreign policy toward Japan. At the same time, in Japan the problems of the past and war responsibility had not been fully ...

Japan: Foreign and Security Policy at a Crossroads

Contemporary Japanese foreign policy does not differ excessively from that defined in the last half of the nineteenth century. Japan's foreign ...

japan's foreign policy in the inter- national environment of

Japan thus came to assume as its raison d'être the role of a gendarme opposing national revolution in Asia. The leaders of Japan expected as a matter of course ...

Promoting Relations with Specific Countries

a. After the bitter experiences before and during the Second World War, Japan has committed itself to contributing to Asian peace and development by playing a ...