A Study Of The Strategy Of America Allied Itself With Japan (1945-1951)

In 1945, Japanese surrendered in the Second World War, the American army had monopolized the Japanese native place, the relations of American with Japan entered a new era. The superior geography strategic location and abundant strength foundation of Japan aroused an adequate attention of the US. Around the ending of the war, the main goal of the United States was to contain the Japanese militarism, thus american adopted some positive measures, such as dismembering Japan empire, punishing the war criminals, carrying out democratic reform.With the formation of the cold war pattern and the changing of Asian Pacific situation, american took the measure of containing the influence of communism as its essential target, transferred policy of weakening Japan to revive it, try to ally itself with Japan and drag Japan into the western cold war camp, then the Japan become a fortress of the United States to be used for opposing communism in Asian Pacifistic area.The alliance strategy of the United States to Japan has proudly affected the development of the postwar international relations. From the perspective of strategy research, the author rests on the geopolitics theory, analyzes the alliance strategy of american in detail in postwar initial period.The full- text can be divided into four chapters, the main contents are as follows:In the first chapter, the author briefly reviews the history of the United States with Japan before the second World War, pointes out that both two countries are the great sea power nations, and they had conflict of competing for East Asian and the Pacific Ocean hegemony. The superior geography strategic location of Japan is its nature strategic resources, which attracted the attention of american. Under the banner of antifascist, american defeated Japanese, monopolized the Japanese native place, dismembered Japan Empire, punished the Japanese war criminals, carried out democratic reform in Japan, all of which are beneficial to eliminate Japanese militarism influence and lay the foundation for the United States to capture the Pacific Ocean hegemony.In the second chapter, from perspective of the macroscopic orientation of the two countries, the author pointes out that as the formation of the cold war pattern and changing of international situation, the american determined that Japan would became the anti-communism fortress in locality and then transformed policy of penalty to revive Japan. The Japan also adopted the policy of intimating with US completely, which provided the convenience for the american's strategy to alliance with Japan.In the third chapter, from the perspective of microscopic, the author analyzes the Armed Force questions in Japan territory, which is the essential part of american's strategy to form an alliance with Japan. The American argued vigorously with Japanese that the United States have the right to stationed army in Japan and requested Japan to re-arms to share the defense burden of the American army. The Japanese agree with the American's request basically, thus paved the way for both countries formed the alliance finally. In the fourth chapter, the author describes the historical facts, which are american arranged the meeting in order to make peace with Japan in Sane Francisco, soon, american and Japanese work out the treaty of alliance. The author analyzes the process which the United States and Japan form an alliance from geopolitics perspective.