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This title offers a comprehensive examination of Japan's postwar transformation into the "Great Britain of the Far East" - beholden to the agenda of the US. 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political science & theory

• Full title: Client State
• Subtitle: Japan in the American Embrace
• Author: Gavan McCormack
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9781844671335
• ID: 04858034
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Weight: 238 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 141 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2007

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