Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance

In this book, Masami Kimura reconsiders postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on ＂modernization＂ ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s-early 1950s. Kimura identifies parallel groups of modernist thinkers in America and Japan and explores different strands of thought within an evolving political environment.

Masami Kimura is Lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her primary research area is U.S.-Japan relations, and her publications include ＂American Asia Experts, Liberal Internationalism, and the Occupation of Japan: Transcending Cold War Politics and Historiography,＂ Journal of American-East Asian Relations 21, no. 3 (2014).