Table of Contents

Westview Replica Editions -- Introduction -- The Regional Environment: America’s New Asian Strategy -- The Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship -- Japan’s China Tilt -- China and Japan: Diplomatic, Economic and Military Relations -- Soviet Reactions to the Treaty -- The Sino-Soviet Conflict Widens -- U.S.-China Rapprochement and Japan -- Japan’s Security and the United States -- Defense and the Japanese State

About the Author

Robert E. Bedeski studied Chinese in Taiwan and received a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. This book was written while Professor Bedeski was a research fellow of the Japan Foundation at the National Defense College in Tokyo. Currently a professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, he is the author of State-Building in Modern China: The Kuomintang in the Prewar Period.