1. Japanese-American Relations and Perceptions, 1900-1940

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Chronology XI
5. Introduction XIII
6. 1. Japanese-American Relations and Perceptions, 1900-1940 1
7. 2. U.S. Policy toward Japan before World War II 17
8. 3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the New Deal, and Japan 27
9. 4. Principles Versus Realities: U.S. Prewar Foreign Policy toward Japan 37
10. 5. Examples of Mismanagement in U.S. Policy toward Japan before World War II 47
11. 6. Miscalculations in Deterrent Policy: U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1938-1941 51
12. 7. Hornbeck Was Right: The Realist Approach to American Policy toward Japan 65
13. 8. The Road to the Pacific War 73
14. 9. Cordell Hull and the Diplomacy of Inflexibility 75
15. 10. On the So-Called Hull-Nomura Negotiations 89
16. 11. Ambassador Nomura and His "John Doe Associates": Pre-Pearl Harbor Diplomacy Revisited 97
17. 12. Nomura in Washington: Conversations in Lieu of Diplomacy 107
18. 13. Repulsing the Pearl Harbor Revisionists: The State of Present Literature on the Debacle 119
19. 14. Churchill, Roosevelt, and the China Question in Pre-Pearl Harbor Diplomacy 127
20. 15. Indochina: Unplanned Incursion 141
21. 16. The Road to Pearl Harbor 151
22. 17. The Russian Factor in Japanese-American Relations, 1941 163
23. 18. Concluding Remarks 179
24. Suggested Readings 187
25. Contributors 193
26. Index 197