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Preparation for the Occupation of Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Hugh Borton
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In the twenty years since Japan's surrender, new materials and greater perspective allow for more effective probing than heretofore of American policies on the occupation of Japan. This study aims to further this task by posing and answering—at least in part—several questions which underlay these policies.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , February 1966 , pp. 203 - 212
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966

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1 Department of State, Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation 1935–1945, Washington, 1949, Publication 3580, 348Google Scholar.

2 This statement, which was originated in SWNCC, was approved by President Truman on September 6, 1945. See Jones, F. C., Borton, Hugh and Pearn, B. R., The Far East 1942–46, Oxford University Press, 1955. P. 502Google Scholar.

3 Ibid, p. 506.

4 Ibid, p. 512.

5 See McNelly, Theodore, “The Japanese Constitution,” Political Science Quarterly, LXXIV, (June, 1959) 179Google Scholar, and “The Renunciation of War in the Japanese Constitution,” Political Science Quarterly, LXXVII (September, 1962), 357 ffGoogle Scholar.

6 Notes of the author, dated May 4, 1944.

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14 As the U.S.S.R. and India were new members of the FEC, they had not gone to Tokyo with the FEAC.

15 For a concise account of the drafting of the Constitution and the relationships of the SCAP with the Japanese government, see McNelly, Theodore, Contemporary Government of Japan, Boston, 1963, pp. 36 ffGoogle Scholar.

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17 Ibid, pp. 349 and 540.

18 Ibid, p. 543