Japanese diplomacy in the 1950s : from isolation to integration / edited by Makoto Iokibe ... [and others].

"First published in 2008"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Japan, Anglo-American rivalry, and indifference -- The US, Britain, Japan, and the issue of casus belli, 1951-2 : could a Soviet attack on Japan justify starting a third world war? / Futoshi Shibayama -- Great Britain and Japanese rearmament, 1950-60 / John Weste -- Japan in British regional policy towards South-East Asia, 1945-1960 / Junko Tomaru -- Japan's re-emergence in regional and international organizations -- Japan at the Bandung Conference : an attempt to assert an independent foreign policy / Kweku Ampiah -- Japan's entry into ECAFE / Oba Mie -- Japan's struggle for UN membership in 1955 / Kurusu Kaoru -- Japanese and US domestic constraints on foreign policy -- The Lucky Dragon incident of 1954 : a failure of crisis management / John Swenson-Wright -- The revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty and Okinawa : factional and domestic political constraints on Japanese diplomacy in the 1950s / Robert D. Eldridge -- Breaking the deadlock : Japan's informal diplomacy with the People's Republic of China, 1958-9 / Caroline Rose -- Conclusion : John Weste.