K enneth B. P yle . Japan in the American Century

Readers interested in the history of U.S.-Japan relations have waited a long time for a book like this. Previous surveys in English, most notably Michael Schaller’s Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation (1997) and Walter LaFeber’s The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations throughout History (1998), while deeply researched, relied exclusively on the English-language archive. In contrast, Kenneth B. Pyle’s Japan in the American Century makes extensive use of both English and Japanese sources in offering a broad survey of U.S.-Japan relations from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, with a special emphasis on the period from 1941 onward. As a survey, Pyle’s book provides a chronological narrative based on the latest secondary source research, offering fairly comprehensive coverage of the main events and issues in the U.S.-Japan relationship over the past century. But Pyle’s book also has significant analytical heft, as might be expected from...

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