This article investigates the relationship between Asian American and modern Japanese history by analyzing the image of Japanese Americans in postwar Japan. Based on a book of photographs featuring Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i published in 1956, it analyzes how their image was appropriated and redefined in Japan to promote as well as reinforce the nation’s political and cultural alliance with the United States. The photographs showed the successful acculturation of Japanese in Hawai‘i to the larger American society and urged the Japanese audience to see that their nation’s postwar reconstruction would come through the power and protection of the United States. Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i served as a lens through which the Japanese in Japan could imagine their position under American hegemony in the age of Cold War.
American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe American Hegemony
and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe ,
John Krige , MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 2006. $40.00
(376 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-11297-0
