The Struggle For Security Procedure And It’s Influence For Japan’s Domestic Order And Diplomacy (1960-1964)

The protests against the 1960 revisions of the US-Japan Security Treaty, were the largest and longest series of popular protests in Japan’s history. Meanwhile, its destruction urged Japan walk to change in the internal affairs and diplomatic aspects which became an important turning point in the postwar of Japan.By 1960, a decade and a half end of the war, Japan had been rebuilt physically and revived economically. However, Japan’s national identity, which is to say the question of what kind of society Japan would be domestically and what kind of role the nation would play in the world stage going forward, was still very much up for grabs. At the same time, the Japanese "national identity" problem still be in suspense, which due to Japan still was half occupied by American and it made no autonomy at all, "the reconstruction of national identity" was out of the question. The Struggle for Security Procedure precipitated or accelerated a series of transformations in Japanese Politics Economics diplomacy, and society, that reshaped Japan’s domestic order and reconfigured Japan’s role within the international system, which made Japanese "national identity" began to clear up in the postwar.The research combed the general situation of Struggle for Security Procedure from the historical perspective and combined with the knowledge of international relations, economics and other disciplines. And from the perspective of Japan’s domestic politics and the relationship to mainly explore the Struggle for Security Procedure impact on Japan’s domestic and foreign affairs. The thesis included an introduction and three chapters. Chapters 1 outlined the development and background of The Struggle for Security Procedure from 1959-1960. Chapters 2 explores the impact of The Struggle for Security Procedure on the ruling conservatives,particularly as reflected in the policies of Prime Minister Ikeda Hayato, the drive within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to eliminate factions, and the promulgation of the famed Income Doubling Plan. Chapter 3 examines the impact of The Struggle for Security Procedure on US-Japan relations, with particular emphasis on the hitherto under-studied diplomacy of the Ikeda and Kennedy administrations, due to the outbreak of the Struggle for Security Procedure greatly impacted the U.S.-Japan relations after the war, the subordinate of Japan and affiliate of the United States out of respect for each other’s national interests, they began to take active measures to repair the bilateral relations that already damaged, and built the equal partner relationship actively to make the U.S.-Japan relations into a new level, which led to the post-war reconstruction of the relationship.All in all, the Struggle for Security Procedure in 1960 is a significant turning point in the process of the Japan’s post-war history.