244 pp. January 2010
cloth
, ISBN 978-1-906876-15-9, $85.00
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The Occupation-era Correspondence of Kichisaburo Nomura
ed. by Peter Mauch
Distributed for Global Oriental
With a Foreword by James E. Auer
This volume is the result of the recent discovery of the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura—one-time foreign minister, pre–Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and “spiritual godfather” of post-war Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force.
The book reproduces Nomura’s Occupation-era correspondence with his American friends and associates (a total of 84 letters), including Navy Secretary Daniel Kimball, SCAP political adviser William Sebald, former ambassadors William Castle and Joseph Grew, Army and Navy Journal owner John Callan O’Laughlin, as well as admirals William Pratt, Arleigh Burke, Charles Turner Joy, Ralph Oftsie, and Harold Martin. In addition, the collection contains three essays and eight memoranda by Nomura. Each document is set in context by the editor, and the Introduction includes an in-depth evaluation of both the documents as well as Nomura’s life and times.
The volume will be widely welcomed, enabling readers to confront for themselves a hitherto largely neglected perspective on what defined and consolidated the post WWII Japanese–U.S. partnership.
For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico
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