Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1950-1964 reveals the divisive impact of the Sino-Soviet Alliance on Japanese domestic politics and foreign relations during the turbulent years between 1950 and 1964. Drawing on extensive Japanese sources and unprecedented access to previously classified government documents, C.W. Braddick exposes the myths shrouding this formative era in Japan's postwar development.

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C.W. BRADDICK is Professor of International Political History at Musashi University, Tokyo, where he has taught since 1989. He was a member of the Anglo-Japanese History Project and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has authored numerous articles on Japanese politics and foreign relations.

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List of Tables and Figures Preface Glossary, Abbreviations and Conventions Japan in a Bipolar World: An Introduction Leaning to One Side: Japanese Diplomacy and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950-60 Fire Across the Sea: Japanese Security and the Sino-Soviet Strategic Rift, 1960-64 Separating Economics from Politics: Japan's Trade with Two Communist Economies, 1950-60 Fishing in Troubled Waters: Japanese Trade and the Sino-Soviet Economic Schism, 1960-6 Monolithic Unity: The Japanese Left and the Communist Bloc, 1950-62 When Brothers Fight: Japanese Socialism and the Sino-Soviet Ideological Dispute, 1962-64 Wishful Thinking: Japan's Public Debate on the Sino-Soviet Relationship, 1950-62 Independent Thinking: Japanese Civil Society and the Open Sino-Soviet Split, 1962-64 Japan and the Drift Towards Multipolarisation: Concluding Thoughts Appendices Select Bibliography Index