@article{855862,
      recid = {855862},
      author = {Pyle, Kenneth B.,},
      title = {Japan in the American century /},
      pages = {1 online resource (457 pages) :},
      abstract = {No nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to  world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's  unprecedented policy of unconditional surrender led to the  catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most  intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in  modern history. Japan in the American Century examines how  Japan, with its deeply conservative heritage, responded to  the imposition of a new liberal order. The price Japan paid  to end the occupation was a cold war alliance with the  United States that ensured America's dominance in the  region. Still traumatized by its wartime experience, Japan  developed a grand strategy of dependence on U.S. security  guarantees so that the nation could concentrate on economic  growth. Yet from the start, despite American expectations,  Japan reworked the American reforms to fit its own  circumstances and cultural preferences, fashioning  distinctively Japanese variations on capitalism, democracy,  and social institutions.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/855862},
}