The A to Z of United States-Japan Relations traces this 150 year
relationship through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a
bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on key
persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations. Covering
everything from Walt Whitman's poem, "A Broadway
Pageant," commemorating the visit of the Shogun's Embassy
to the U.S. in 1860, to zaibatsu, this ready reference is an
excellent starting point for the study of Japan's dealings with
the U.S.
John E. Van Sant is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Peter Mauch is lecturer of international history at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. Yoneyuki Sugita is associate professor of American history at Osaka University of Foreign Studies and author of Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan.
