Client State: Japan in the American Embrace (英語) ペーパーバック – 2007/7/17
Gavan McCormack (著)
Japan is the world’s No. 2 economy, greater in GDP than Britain and France together and almost double that of China. It is also the most durable, generous, and unquestioning ally of the US, attaching priority to its Washington ties over all else. In Client State, Gavan McCormack examines the current transformation of Japan, designed to meet the demands from Washington that Japan become the “Great Britain of the Far East.” Exploring postwar Japan’s relationship with America, he contends that US pressure has been steadily applied to bring Japan in line with neoliberal principles. The Bush administration’s insistence on Japan’s thorough subordination has reached new levels, and is an agenda heavily in the American, rather than the Japanese, national interest. It includes comprehensive institutional reform, a thorough revamp of the security and defense relationship with the US, and—alarmingly—vigorous pursuit of Japan’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century (英語) ハードカバー – 2017/9/5
Richard McGregor (著)
Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump’s disdain for America’s old alliances and China's own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia’s Reckoning reveals how that structure is falling apart.
With unrivaled access to archives in the United States and Asia, as well as to many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale that blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with bitter domestic politics and the personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The about-turn of Japan—from a colossus seemingly poised for world domination to a nation in inexorable decline in the space of two decades—has few parallels in modern history, as does the rapid rise of China—a country whose military is now larger than those of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asia's combined.
The confrontational course on which China and Japan are set is no simple spat between neighbors: the United States would be involved on the side of Japan in any military conflict between the two countries. The fallout would be an economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent. Richard McGregor’s book takes us behind the headlines of his years reporting as the Financial Times’s Beijing and Washington bureau chief to show how American power will stand or fall on its ability to hold its ground in Asia.
NEW YORK, September 7, 2017 — ChinaFile presents Orville Schell, Richard McGregor, Ian Buruma, and Susan Shirk discussing McGregor's new book "Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century." (1 hr. 17 min.)
There is no shortage of scenarios in which America’s postwar world comes under challenge and starts to crack. It could take the form of a draining showdown with Islamist radicals in the Middle East, a conflict with Russia that engulfs Europe, or a one-on-one superpower naval battle with China. Soon after his election, Donald Trump finished his first conversation as president-elect with Barack Obama at the White House fretting about the threat from a nuclear-armed North Korea.
In daily headlines, the jousting between China and Japan can’t compete with the medieval violence of ISIS or the outsize antics of Vladimir Putin or threats from tyrants like Kim Jong Un. The rivalry between the two countries has festered, by some measures, for centuries, giving it a quality that lets it slip on and off the radar. After all, China and Japan, according to the conventional wisdom, are at their core practical nations with pragmatic leaders.
The two countries, along with Taiwan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, sit at the heart of the global economy. The iPhones, personal computers, and flat-screen televisions in electronic shops around the world; most of the mass-produced furniture and large amounts of the cheap clothing that fill shopping centers in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom; a vast array of industrial goods that consumers are scarcely aware of, from wires and valves to machine parts and the like—all of them, one way or another, are sourced through the supply chains anchored by Asia’s two giants. With so much at stake, how could they possibly come to blows?
China and Japan’s thriving commercial ties, one of the largest two-way trade relationships in the world, though, have failed to forge a closer political bond. In recent years, the relationship has taken on new and dangerous dimensions for both countries, and for the United States as well, an ally of Japan’s that it has signed a treaty to defend. Far from exorcising memories of the brutal war between them that began in the early 1930s and lasted more than a decade, Japan and China are caught in a downward spiral of distrust and ill will. There has been the occasional thawing of tension and the odd uptick in diplomacy in the seventy years since the end of the war. Men and women of goodwill in both countries have dedicated their careers to improving relations. Most of these efforts, however, have come to naught.
Asia’s version of the War of the Roses is being fought on multiple battlefields: on the high seas over disputed islands; in capitals around the world as each tries to convince partners and allies of the other’s infamy; and in the media, in the relentless, self-righteous, and scorching exchanges over the true account and legacy of the Pacific War. The clash between Japan and China on this issue echoes a conversation between two Allied prisoners of war in Richard Flanagan’s garlanded novel set on the Burma Railway in 1943, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. “Memory is the true justice, sir,” a soldier says to his superior officer, explaining why he wants to hold on to souvenirs of their time in a Japanese internment camp. “Or the creator of new horrors,” the officer replies.
In Europe, an acknowledgment of World War II’s calamities helped bring the Continent’s nations together in the aftermath of the conflict. In east Asia, by contrast, the war and its history have never been settled, politically, diplomatically, or emotionally. There has been little of the introspection and statesmanship that helped Europe to heal its wounds. Even the most basic of disagreements over history still percolate through day-to-day media coverage in Asia more than seventy years later, in baffling, insidious ways. Open a Japanese newspaper in 2017, and you might read of a heated debate about whether Japan invaded China, something that is only an issue because conservative Japanese still insist that their country was fighting a war of self-defense in the 1930s and 1940s. Peruse the state-controlled press in China, and you will see the Communist Party drawing legitimacy from its heroic defeat of Japan, though in truth, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists carried the burden of fighting the invaders, while the Communists mostly preserved their strength in hinterland hideouts. Scant recognition is given to the United States, who fought the Japanese for years before ending the conflict with two atomic bombs.
“McGregor has written a shrewd and knowing book about the relationship between China, Japan and America over the past half-century. Among much else, he shows how the world’s top three economies are now imprisoned by increasingly unstable dynamics, and not only in the military realm. Though Mr. McGregor has pored over archives to put together a hard-to-surpass narrative history of high diplomacy in Asia, the strength of his book is its old-fashioned journalism, in which empathy and explanation outweigh mere exposé. Indeed, Asia’s Reckoning has the aura of a ‘tour-ender,’ the kind of conspectus that foreign correspondents of a generation ago and further back would put together after they had finished a multiyear stint in some far-flung place. Here are insightful, detail-rich profiles of everyone from Zhou Enlai and Henry Kissinger to Kakuei Tanaka and Jiang Zemin.”
—Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal
JOANNE MYERS: Good afternoon. I'm Joanne Myers, director of Public Affairs programs, and on behalf of the Carnegie Council I'd like to welcome our members, guests, and C-SPAN Book TV to this very special program.
We are delighted to be hosting Eri Hotta, author of Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy, and her husband, who is a celebrated Asian scholar and a prolific writer whom I know many of you are familiar with, Ian Buruma. Ian will engage Eri in what is certain to be a very lively conversation about Japan and its role in World War II. This will be followed by a discussion with you, our distinguished audience.
「Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy」は日本の近現代史を英語で学ぶために参考になると思います。
Selected Events in Japanese History Prior to April 1941
Here and throughout the book, the dates are indicated in local times.
1853 July Commodore Matthew Perry presses Japan to end its isolationist policy.
1854 March 31 The Tokugawa shogunate signs the unfavorable Treaty of Peace and Amity with the United States, ending its isolationist policy and leading to the opening of Japanese ports to the rest of the world.
1868 January 3 The shogunate falls and the Meiji Restoration is proclaimed.
1882 January 4 The Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors, a code of military conduct that will form a vital part of Japanese nationalism, is issued.
1889 February 11 The Meiji Constitution is promulgated.
1890 July 1 Japan holds its first general elections.
November 25 The first session of the Diet, Japan’s bicameral parliament, is summoned, and held four days later.
1894 August 1 Japan declares war on Qing China, beginning the Sino-Japanese War.
1895 April 17 Japan defeats China, concluding the war with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, placing Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula, strategically located to access northeastern China (Manchuria), under Japanese control.
April 23 Russia, Germany, and France pressure Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula to China (the so-called Triple Intervention), which it does on May 5.
1898 March 27 Russia secures a leasehold on the Liaodong Peninsula.
1902 January 30 The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, a treaty between equals, is formed.
1904 February 8 Japan attacks czarist Russia at Port Arthur, declaring war two days later.
1905 May 27–28 The Japanese navy scores a major victory in the Battle of Tsushima.
September 5 The Russo-Japanese War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, through the mediation of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt.
November 17 Korea becomes a Japanese protectorate.
1906 August 1 Japan forms the Kwantung Army to protect its Manchurian possessions, newly acquired from Russia.
1910 August 29 Japan annexes Korea.
1912 July 30 Mutsuhito, the Meiji emperor, dies, succeeded by his son, Yoshihito.
1914 July 28 World War I breaks out.
August 23 Japan goes to war with Germany, enabling it to take over German possessions in China and the Pacific by November.
1915 January 18 Japan issues the Twenty-One Demands to Yuan Shikai’s China, but fails to win diplomatic concessions while antagonizing the Chinese.
1918 November 11 World War I ends, followed by the convocation of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
1922 February 6 Japan ratifies the Nine-Power Treaty and the Washington Naval Treaty, commencing the era of Japan’s liberal internationalist foreign policy.
1923 September 1 The Great Kanto Earthquake and the ensuing fire destroy much of Tokyo.
1926 December 25 Yoshihito dies and Crown Prince Hirohito becomes the emperor.
1929 October 29 Black Tuesday marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
1930 January 21 The London Naval Conference begins.
November 4 Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi is gravely wounded by an ultranationalist for supporting Japan’s ratification of the London Naval Treaty.
1931 September 18 The Kwantung Army launches the Manchurian Incident, a Japanese invasion of northeastern China, after blowing up a railway line near Mukden and blaming the act on the Chinese.
September 24 Prime Minister Wakatsuki Reijiro’s cabinet condones the military insubordination by accepting the Kwantung Army’s takeover of the Manchurian province of Jilin.
1932 March 1 The establishment of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state with nominal Chinese leaders, is proclaimed by the Kwantung Army.
October 2 The Lytton Commission issues its report condemning the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
1933 January 28 The Kwantung Army occupies Rehe, a buffer province between Manchukuo and China (in today’s northern Hebei Province), with a view to establishing a stronghold in North China.
February 24 Matsuoka Yosuke, Japan’s ambassador plenipotentiary, announces his country’s intention to withdraw from the League of Nations over its adoption of the Lytton Report.
May 31 Japan successfully pressures the Guomindang (a.k.a. Kuomintang, often referred to as the Chinese Nationalist Party) leader Chiang Kai-shek to agree to the Tanggu Truce, creating a demilitarized zone in eastern Hebei, near Manchukuo’s borders.
1935 June Japanese pressures on Chiang Kai-shek increase, prompting him to withdraw his troops from Hebei, and Chahar, Inner Mongolia, enabling Japan to secure its sphere of influence around Manchukuo.
1936 February 26 A coup attempt in Tokyo instigated by young army officers almost succeeds, but Hirohito’s decisive intervention quells it.
December 12 Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by the anti-Japanese warlord Zhang Xueliang, who forces Chiang to reassess his policy, eventually making him agree to join a united front against Japan, in cooperation with Chinese Communists.
1937 June 4 Konoe Fumimaro becomes prime minister.
July 7 The China War begins with a Sino-Japanese clash at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing.
December 13 Japanese forces conquer the Guomindang capital, Nanjing, followed by weeks of mass killing and rape.
1938 January 16 Prime Minister Konoe declares that Japan will not “deal with” Chiang Kai-shek.
March 24 The National Mobilization Law is passed in the Diet, followed by a series of emergency centralization measures to carry out Japan’s effective war mobilization.
July 1 The United States begins its “moral embargo” on aircraft and aircraft parts against Japan.
November 3 Konoe announces that Japan’s aim in the war against China is to help create a “New East Asian Order.”
1939 January 5 Konoe’s cabinet resigns.
February 10 The Japanese occupation of Hainan Island begins.
July 26 The United States announces its intention to abrogate the 1911 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Japan.
1940 March 30 Wang Jingwei forms a pro-Japanese government in Japanese-occupied Nanjing.
May 7 Pearl Harbor is made the main base for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
June 4 The United States embargoes exports of industrial equipment to Japan.
June 14 German forces begin to invade Paris, leading to the fall of France.
July 22 Konoe becomes prime minister for the second time; Matsuoka Yosuke becomes foreign minister.
From late July to early August U.S. exports of metals, aviation gasoline, and lubricating oil to Japan come under strict federal control.
August 1 Matsuoka uses the term “Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere” to sum up the government’s ambition to build a self-sufficient regional bloc under Japan’s leadership.
September 23–29 Japan occupies the northern half of French Indochina.
September 25 The United States increases its financial assistance to Chiang Kai-shek.
September 26 The United States embargoes the sale of steel and scrap iron to Japan, to go into effect on October 16.
September 27 Japan signs the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy.
October 12 The Imperial Rule Assistance Association is formed under Konoe’s presidency, putting an end to Japan’s party politics and beginning the New Order Movement.
October 31 Dance halls are closed and jazz performances become illegal in Japan.
November 10 The twenty-six-hundred-year reign of the Japanese imperial house is celebrated nationwide.
1941 January 8 Army Minister Tojo Hideki issues “Instructions for the Battlefield,” commanding soldiers to die a soldier’s death rather than become captives; this code, glorifying heroic death, will form the basis of Japan’s wartime credo.
February 11 The Japanese ambassador to the United States, Nomura Kichisaburo, arrives in Washington, D.C.
March 12 Matsuoka leaves for his grand tour of Europe to meet Japan’s Axis partners, Hitler and Mussolini.
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Paramahansa Yogananda: As I Knew Him -- Experiences, Observations & Reflections of a Disciple (英語) ペーパーバック – 2018/5/31
Roy Eugene Davis (著)
Frances Fayden
5つ星のうち5.0
If you love Yogananda, this is a treasure!
2018年6月28日 - (Amazon.com)
This is a wonderful first-hand account of life with the great master, Paramahansa Yogananda. Mr. Davis' stories of his time with Yogananda made me feel even closer to this great saint. I always recommend reading books about a great master written by their disciples, as they give you great insight about the guru-disciple relationship. Also included are an expanded Q&A section about yogic living, which is especially helpful for aspiring yogis like me.
Roy Eugene Davis met his guru, Paramahansa Yogananda on Christmas eve 1949. It is rare that a direct disciple of a master of yoga shares an intimate account of that relationship and describes the psychological and spiritual transformations that can occur. In this informative book the reader is introduced to a realm of experience and knowledge that is not ordinarily accessible. Mr. Davis has taught meditation and spiritual growth processes in North and South America, Europe, West Africa, Japan and India for more than 50 years. His books have been published in 10 languages. He is the founder and spiritual director of Center for Spiritual Awareness with International Headquarters in north Georgia.
著者について
Roy Eugene Davis has taught meditation and spiritual growth processes in North and South America, Europe, West Africa, Japan, and India for more than 50 years. Some of his books have been published in 10 lanuguages and 11 countries. He is the founder and spiritual director of Center for Spiritual Awareness.
Roy Eugene Davis is one of the last of Paramahansa Yogananda's personal disciples still living. He was ordained by Yoganandaji with the directive to "Teach as I have taught, heal as I have healed, and initiate sincere seekers in kriya yoga." In this video he recalls his time with the great kriya yoga master, the example he set, his open sharing of spiritual practices and his enlightened consciousness.
