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During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia.
But how was the American public made to accept an alliance with Japan so soon after the "Japs" had been demonized as subhuman, bucktoothed apes with Coke-bottle glasses? In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war. While General MacArthur's Occupation Forces pursued our nation's strategic goals in Japan, liberal American politicians, journalists, and filmmakers pursued an equally essential, though long-unrecognized, goal: the dissemination of a new and palatable image of the Japanese among the American public.
With extensive research, from Occupation memoirs to military records, from court documents to Hollywood films, and from charity initiatives to newspaper and magazine articles, Shibusawa demonstrates how the evil enemy was rendered as a feminized, submissive nation, as an immature youth that needed America's benevolent hand to guide it toward democracy. Interestingly, Shibusawa reveals how this obsession with race, gender, and maturity reflected America's own anxieties about race relations and equity between the sexes in the postwar world. America's Geisha Ally is an exploration of how belligerents reconcile themselves in the wake of war, but also offers insight into how a new superpower adjusts to its role as the world's preeminent force.
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Naoko Shibusawa is Associate Professor of History at Brown University.
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An engagingly written study of how Americans used commonly accepted hierarchical imagery associated with gender and maturity (that is, man over woman and adult over child) as well as emerging progressive ideas about race to quickly transform the perception of the Japanese into valuable Cold War allies after a brutal and racialized war. It's a good but far from definitive study of an important issue.
However, a significant flaw in her chapter about the Kawakita treason trial warrants mention here. She claims the judge "heavily influenced the verdict" but her only support for that claim is her erroneous argument that he "ignored the rule of double jeopardy." In fact, the judge was accurately explaining that a mistrial would result from the jury's inability to reach a decision (p. 156). Her bias against the judge continues when she argues that he "took special care to contrast Kawakita's behavior with that of Japanese Americans" who in giving their lives in the war " `stood the supreme test of loyalty to their native land' "(p. 157). She concludes from this statement that the judge "unwittingly reinforced the notion that `the only good Jap is a dead Jap' by pointing to the Nisei soldiers who had been killed rather than to the thousands of Nisei soldiers who survived the war." Shibusawa presents no evidence that Judge Mathes' rhetorical device -- which quite predictably contrasted the ultimate national betrayal of treason with its most extreme opposite, the "supreme test of loyalty" of giving one's life for one's country -- created such a negative racist "notion" in anyone's mind other than her own.
However, a significant flaw in her chapter about the Kawakita treason trial warrants mention here. She claims the judge "heavily influenced the verdict" but her only support for that claim is her erroneous argument that he "ignored the rule of double jeopardy." In fact, the judge was accurately explaining that a mistrial would result from the jury's inability to reach a decision (p. 156). Her bias against the judge continues when she argues that he "took special care to contrast Kawakita's behavior with that of Japanese Americans" who in giving their lives in the war " `stood the supreme test of loyalty to their native land' "(p. 157). She concludes from this statement that the judge "unwittingly reinforced the notion that `the only good Jap is a dead Jap' by pointing to the Nisei soldiers who had been killed rather than to the thousands of Nisei soldiers who survived the war." Shibusawa presents no evidence that Judge Mathes' rhetorical device -- which quite predictably contrasted the ultimate national betrayal of treason with its most extreme opposite, the "supreme test of loyalty" of giving one's life for one's country -- created such a negative racist "notion" in anyone's mind other than her own.
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