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The Clash

By Walter Lafeber

The Clash book

The Clash

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When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occasionally violent clashes between Americans and Japanese began. Walter LaFeber has written the first book to tell the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan-a compact, homogenous, closely knit society terrified of disorder-and America-a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace. Using both American and Japanese sources, LaFeber provides the history behind the vicissitudes of rearming Japan, the present-day tensions in U.S.-Japan trade talks, Japan's continuing importance in financing America's huge deficit, and both nations' drive to develop China-a shadow that has darkened American-Japanese relations from the beginning.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
544
Release Date:
1998-09-17
Publication Date:
1998-09-01
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393318370
ISBN13:
9780393318371
Weight:
759 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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