Negotiating the U.S.-Japan Alliance

This book is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the U.S. and Japanese foreign policy formulation and implementation processes from 1961 to 1978, which also explores the long-term strategic significance of the U.S. deterrence in East Asia. It is based on numerous declassified and previously unused U.S. and Japanese documents, oral histories, and the author's interviews with former officials. The book traces the origins of contemporary security and diplomatic issues back to the 1961-1978 U.S.-Japan negotiations involving secret arrangements in the reversion of Okinawa, Japan's defense build-up, including the question of Japan's nuclear option, and U.S.-Japan defense cooperation.

Yukinori Komine, PhD, is an Associate in Research of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University USA and an Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Security and Global Studies in American Public University. He is the author of Secrecy in US Foreign Policy: Nixon, Kissinger and the Rapprochement with China (2008).

Introduction Part I. The Foundations of U.S.-Japan Security Arrangements 1. The Kennedy-Reischauer Line, 1961-1963 2. The Vietnam War and the U.S.-Japan Alliance, 1964-1968 Part II. Secrecy in the U.S.-Japan Alliance 3. U.S. Foreign Policy Formulation 4. Japanese Foreign Policy Formulation 5. U.S.-Japan Negotiations 6. The November 1969 U.S.-Japan Summit Part III. Where is Japan Heading? 7. Japan's Defense Build-up 8. Impact of U.S. Rapprochement with China on the U.S.-Japan Alliance 9. The U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation Conclusion