"Preparation for the Occupation of Japan" by Hugh Borton

335 Hsia, Metaphor, Myth, Ritual and the People's Commune Asian studies 25 Journal v. (Feb. 335 Hsia, A Terminological Study of the Hsia-Fang Movement of 19661. ₽ 335 Hsia, The Commune in Retreat as Evidenced in Terminology and Semantics C.N. TAY 203-217 337 Chen, La Reforme Agraire en Chine Populaire ANDREGHIN 338 Hsieh, Taiwan-ilha Formosa: A Geography in Perspective NORTON GINSEL 339 Shen, Agricultural Development on Taiwan Since W orld War II CHARLES 11. Preparation for the Occupation of Japan 340 Ise: The Origin of Japanese Architecture 340 Tange and Kawazoe. Ise: Prototype of Japanese Architecture J. EDWARD KIDDER HUGH BORTON Kidder, The Birth of Japanese Art JOHN F. HASKING 342 Araki, The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan ROBERT 11. BROWER 344 Seidensticker, The Gossamer Years; A Diary by a Noblewoman of Heian Japan ARTHUR WALLY 346 Kojiro, Forms in Japan A. FREUNDAGE N the twenty years since Japan's surrender, new materials and greater perspective 346 Jansen, Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization DAVID ABOSCH I allow for more effective probing than heretofore of American policies on the occu- 348 Miller, Minobe Tatsukichi. Interpreter of Japanese Constitutionalism 348 Ienaga. Minobe Tatsukichi no Shisöshiteki Kenky ARTHUR E. TIEDEMANY pation of Japan. This study aims to further this task by posing and answering-at 349 Spae, Christian Corridors to Japan JOHN F. HOWES least in part-several questions which underlay these policies. 350 Jairazbhoy, Foreign Influence in Ancient India J. P. SHARMA 351 Prakash, India and the World B. G. COKHALE What were the various departmental, inter-departmental and international bodies 351 Noorani. The Kashmir Question BLAIR B. KLING which dealt with the formation of Japanese postwar policy beginning in 1942 and 352 Ahmad, The Civil Servant in Pakistan HENRY F. GOODNOW 353 Nizami. Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in was there any logic to this development? What was the policy of the United States on India During the Thirteenth Century BURTON STEIN such issues as the Institution of the Emperor and the reform of the Japanese Con- 354 Harper, Religion in South Asia WILFRED CANTWELL SMITH 356 Isherwood, Ramakrishna and His Disciples CYRUS R. PANGBORN stitution, particularly in relation to the Far Eastern Commission? How did the atti- 356 Sastri, The History and Culture of the Tamils EUGENE F. IRSCHIO rude of General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers 357 Singh. The Heritage of the Sikhs MARK NAIDIS 358 Jha, The Kol Insurrection of Chota-Nagpur BRIJEN K. GUPTA affect the drafting of the Constitution? 358 Guha, A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on It will be recalled that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister the Idea of Permanent Settlement HOLDEN FURBLE 359 Mody, Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, a Political Biography STANLEY WOLPERT Winston Churchill declared at the Casa Blanca Conference in January, 1943, that the 360 Derrett. Introduction to Modern Hindu Law MARC GALANTER War would end only with "the unconditional surrender of the Axis States." At the 361 Muzumdar, Social Welfare in India: Mahatma Gandhi's Contributions JOAN V. BONDURANT Cairo meeting December, 1943, they agreed with Chiang Kai-shek on certain 362 Chattopadhyay, Ranjana: A Village in West Bengal RALPH W. NICHOLAS territorial dispositions such as the return to China of Manchuria, Formosa and the 362 Norman, Nehru. The First Sixty Years RICHARD L. PARK 363 Singh and Misra, A Study of Land Reforms in Uttar Pradesh PAUL R. BRASS Pescadores and on the independence of Korea. They concluded their statement with a 364 Khera, Management and Control in Public Enterprise SHANTI S. TANGRI promise to persevere with the war in the Pacific to procure the unconditional sur- 365 Murty, Indian Foreign Policy NORMAN D. PALMER 366 Raghavan, India in Cevlonese History, Society and Culture WILLIAM MCCORMACK render of Japan. While these statements clarified some of the war objectives of the 366 deSilva, Social Policy and Missionary Organizations in Allies, they left numerous questions still unsettled. Ceylon, 1840-1855 ROBERT N. KEARNEY 367 King, A Thousand Lives Away: Buddhism in Contemporary Burma JOHN F. BROHM Among the first questions selected for study in the autumn of 1942 by the Depart- 368 Tregonning, The British in Malaya: the First Forty Years, 1786-1826 LEIGH R. WRIGHT ment of State were: On the assumption that Japan was to be occupied, what should 369 Wong, The Malayan Tin Industry to 1914 RENÉ PERITZ 370 Soedjatmoko, Ali, Rensik, and Kahin, An Introduction to be the composition of the forces to occupy Japan after surrender? What was to Indonesian Historiography JUSTUS M. VAN DER KROLF be the extent and character of this occupation? What was the meaning of "Uncondi- 371 Nasution, Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare GUY J. PAUKER 372 Friend, Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the tional Surrender?" What were the postwar objectives of the United States in relation Philippines, 1929-1946 DAVID JOEL STEINBERG to Japan? What were the political objectives of Military Government in the occupa- 373 Meyer, A Diplomatic History of the Philippine Republic DAVID JOEL STEINBERG 374 Casper, The Wounded Diamond: Studies in Modern tion of Japan? Should the Institution of the Emperor be retained and if SO should the Philippine Literature EPIFANIO SAN JUAN, JR. Emperor's powers be limited and to what extent? ? 374 BOOK NOTES In the early months of 1943, when drafts of papers on these and similar questions 376 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED were being prepared in the Department of State, it was impossible to predict what Now President of Haverford College, the author held various positions in the Department of State The Journal of Asian Studies, known until September 1956 as the Far Eastern Quarterly, is published by The pub from October 1942 to June 30, 1948, including that of Chief of the Division of Japanese Affairs. During Association for Asian Studies, Inc., formerly named The Far Eastern Association, Inc. The Journal is lished in November, February, May and August, and the annual Bibliography of Asian Studies, formerly this period his continuing assignment was working on United States postwar policies for Japan. Under the known as the Far Eastern Bibliography, is published as a fifth number of the Journal in September. 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