| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Creating People of Plenty: The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950–1960. By Sayuri Shimizu. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2001. viii, 309 pp. Paper, $32.00, ISBN 0-87338-706-6.)

Sayuri Shimizu offers a cogent, thoroughly researched account of economic diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan. He describes how	1
American officials in the 1950s sought to remake the nation [Japan] that had become their partner in the Cold War into a pro-Western, pro-capitalist stabilizing force in an Asia of deepening East-West and North-South cleavages. (p. 226)
Shimizu argues that American actions paved the way for Japan's period of high-speed economic growth, thus creating in Japan a people of plenty. While the story that Shimizu tells is not a brand-new one, the account is detailed in ways that make it well worth consideration, especially for specialists interested in Japan's economic ascent after World War II.	. . .

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