Nation Building in Japan, 1945–1952: The Allied Occupation and the US-Japan Alliance , by Peter K. Frost

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Many books have been published on the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952/72) over the last decades. These include John W. Dower’s (1999) award-winning Embracing Defeat, Eiji Takemae’s (2003) classic The Allied Occupation of Japan, and lesser-known texts like T.R. Sareen’s (2013) India and the Allied Occupation of Japan. The latest addition, Nation Building in Japan, is part of Routledge’s Studies in the Modern History of Asia series. The author of this slim volume, Peter K. Frost, is the Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, at Williams College in the United States. Matching its slimness is the book’s modest purpose, which Frost says is ‘written for those who may have little prior knowledge of Japan’ (p. x). This translates into a book that is not based on new research elicited from primary sources, but one that distils and compiles research from other scholars and from memoirs. In turn, this means the book does not have anything particularly new to say about the occupation. While it therefore may not be useful to occupation scholars seeking innovative perspectives and approaches, the book has value for those, for instance undergraduate students, who might be looking for a brief overview of the occupation and its reforms from a predominantly US point of view.

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