| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Amerika no Senso to Nichibei Ampo Taisei (America's wars and the U.S.-Japan security system). By Masashi Shimakawa. (Tokyo: Shakai Hyoronsha, 2001. 222 pp. Paper, ¥2,000, ISBN 4-7845-1415-5.) In Japanese.

This volume includes a brief introduction and conclusion and two major sections: U.S. bases and the Japan-U.S. security structure (5 chapters), and U.S. wars and that structure (8 chapters). The former, published earlier in 2000, focuses on the negotiations that led to the reversion of Okinawa to Japan in 1972 (chapters 2, 3) and on the introduction to U.S. bases in Japan of nuclear weapons and their role (chapters 4, 5). The latter focuses on the Korean War (chapter 1), the Vietnam War (chapters 2, 3), the 1968 Pueblo incident (chapter 4), the EC-121 (1969) and Mayaguez (1975) incidents (chapter 5), the Reagan buildup (chapter 6), and the first Gulf War (chapters 7, 8). There are 36 pages of some 250 notes; there is no bibliography; there are a dozen photos and charts and a map. The documents are up to date, often from one of five document collections now available on the Internet (p. 10n). That this volume has already been overtaken by Gulf War II is hardly the author's fault; the logic of his argument applies regardless.

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