ABSTRACT
Using a multi-national and multi-archival approach to this diplomatic history study, the author examines comprehensively and in great detail for the first time the origins of the so-called Okinawa Problem. Also inlcludes four maps.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter One|8 pages
Introduction
chapter Chapter Two|32 pages
The Strategic Debate Over Okinawa, 1942-1946
America's Search for National Security
chapter Chapter Three|42 pages
The State Department and Postwar Planning for Okinawa, 1942-1946
Realizing the Principle of “No Territorial Aggrandizement”
chapter Chapter Four|29 pages
The SWNCC Debate Over Okinawa, 1945-1947:
An Unresolved and Unresolvable Question of Trusteeship
chapter Chapter Six|94 pages
Forging a Domestic Policy Consensus for Okinawa:
The Formation of NSC 13, 1947-1949
chapter Chapter Seven|97 pages
The Treaty of Peace with Japan and Article 3:
U.S. Strategic Requirements, Japanese Territorial Desires, and the Problem of International Recognition, 1949-1951
chapter Chapter 8|22 pages
Conclusion
The Limits of Article 3: Ratification and the Elusive Search for a “Practicable Arrangement”
