America's Japan : The First Year, 1945-1946 / Grant K. Goodman.
Goodman, Grant K., author.; Sodei, Rinjiro, contributor.
2022
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Title America's Japan : The First Year, 1945-1946 / Grant K. Goodman.
Author Goodman, Grant K., author.
ISBN 9780823295166
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295166
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (176 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823295166 doi
Summary One of the few non-Japanese Americans trained to read, write, and speak Japanese, Princeton undergraduate Grant Goodman had a privileged position during World War II. As an Army lieutenant, Goodman served in the Philippines at the close of the war and in Tokyo as an intelligence officer on General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Goodman translated thousands of letters, interviews, and other documents by Japanese citizens of all kinds, and came to know, as few Americans could, the "hearts and minds" of a defeated people as they moved slowly to democracy. This book is a not only a fascinating personal chronicle of Grant Goodman's unique experience in Japan. Moving deftly between his role as an Army officer gathering essential information and as a young scholar fascinated by Japanese culture, he provides a vividly drawn portrait of daily life in occupied Tokyo.Here he looks back at signal events: Japan's responses to occupation, the writing of the new constitution and the de-deification of the Emperor, the International Military Tribunal and the issue of Japanese war crimes, reactions by ordinary Japanese to American occupiers, and much more.September 2, 2005, marks the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri. First published in Japanese in 1986, America's Japan is not only superb history. It is also a timely reminder of the realities of war and the responsibilities of victors and vanquished alike.
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Added Author Sodei, Rinjiro, contributor.
Series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
1. A Yen for Japan
2. My First Study of Japanese-My Matriculation at Princeton University
3. My Memories of the Army Intensive Japanese Language School-The University of Michigan
4. Practical Training-Fort McClellan and Fort Snelling
5. To the Front Lines in the Philippines
6. Meeting the Surrender Envoys
7. Our Landing in Japan
8. My Work as an ATIS Officer
9. Letters to General MacArthur
10. My Views of General MacArthur
11. My View of the Constitution
12. The Movements of Reform-The Dynamic and the Static
13. The Appearance of Emperor Kumazawa
14. The Yokohama Court
15. The Democratic Boom, the English Boom, and the Christianity Boom
16. Two Suicides
17. My Trip to Shanghai
18. The Mikado
19. Observing the Tokyo War Crimes Trials
20. Returning to America
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