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Reconsideration of the US’s Pressure on Japan and the Yoshida Line’s Cooperative Diplomacy with the US

  • Journal of Japanese Culture
  • 2018, (79), pp.53-71
  • DOI : 10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.53
  • Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : October 14, 2018
  • Accepted : November 9, 2018
  • Published : November 30, 2018

Nameun Kim 1

1고려대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The most important issue in Japan's postwar diplomacy is whether Japan chooses to be "cooperative" or "autonomous" American pressure. Although these two tendencies do not always appear consistently, the "cooperation" route characterized Japanese diplomacy, and its spirit has been passed down as the Yoshida Line. However, Yoshida Line attaches importance to America's "cooperation" more than to anything else, trying to escape from an unequal relationship with the United States. In other words, the policy sought "independence" even though it was "formally autonomous" in the framework of "cooperation" with the United States. For Yoshida Shigeru to realize the peace treaty promptly, and Hayato Ikeda to develop relations with the United States as an equal partner, Eisaku Sato developed the Japan-US cooperative route to realize the return of Okinawa. In this way, it can be said that "cooperation" and "autonomy" are complementary and form a front-back relationship of the same act in Japan's postwar diplomacy.

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