Democratizing Japan

The Allied Occupation

• Author(s): Robert E. Ward, Yoshikazu Sakamoto,
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Pages: 457
• ISBN_10: 0824880722
  ISBN_13: 9780824880729
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / Japan ,

Description:... The value of this book resides in the interweaving of Japanese and American scholarship and viewpoints on a number of aspects of the total Occupation experience that are of critical importance to a historical explanation of its accomplishments or shortfalls. Attention is given to the new constitution of 1946-1947, the most fundamental institutional change wrought by the Occupation's major programs of institutional and procedural reform and the formation and early development of the conservative and reformist parties.