| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy. By Naoko Shibusawa. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 397 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02348-2.)

One of the most compelling questions of postwar U.S.–Japanese relations is how a hated enemy could become a reliable ally within the space of a few years. That question, first posed by John Dower, is the subject of Naoko Shibusawa's book. America's Geisha Ally answers the question by pointing to the ideologies of gender and maturity Americans created about Japan in the postwar period. Those images "made it easier to humanize the Japanese and to recast them as an American responsibility" (p. 5). Artfully written, ambitious, original, and insightful, America's Geisha Ally makes a major contribution to the debate about the underlying basis for the U.S.–Japan postwar relationship.

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