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Book Review
| Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility: Changing U.S. Attitudes toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 19441947. By Henry Oinas-Kukkonen. (Westport: Greenwood, 2003. xii, 242 pp. $68.95,ISBN 0-313-32200-7.)
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| As the title Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility vividly suggests, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen's work on American authorities and the Japanese Communist party (JCP) during the Allied occupation of Japan (19451952) traces the relationship, both at the level of daily interaction and on the international stage, between the views of United States officials and party leaders of the JCP. |
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It is a well-documented study, supported by some twelve hundred footnotes. While there is too much of a tendency to introduce competing interpretations to many issues, it is written clearly. The numerous actors and personalities in the story, the varied nuances in the policy between and within the occupation forces and the U.S. State Department, and the complicated political and diplomatic aspects of the period are covered in great detail. |
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