Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s

Iokibe Makoto is President of the National Defense Academy and Emeritus Professor of Modern Japanese Political and Diplomatic History in the Graduate School of Law and Politics at Kobe University. He is one of Japan's leading specialists of Japanese foreign relations, particularly with the US. He is the author of several award-winning books, including The Occupation Era: Prime Ministers and the Rebuilding of Postwar Japan, 1945-1952 (Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 1997), and A Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan (Yuhikaku, 1999). Caroline Rose is senior lecturer in Japanese Studies and currently head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. She has published two monographs on Sino-Japanese relations and articles on Japanese history education, Chinese and Japanese nationalism, and Sino-Japanese relations in the East Asian context. Tomaru Junko is Professor in the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. Her publications include The Postwar Rapprochement of Malaya and Japan, 1945-61 (Macmillan, 2000, awarded the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2001).John Weste held lectureships in Japanese Studies at the University of Durham (1995-2004) and Leeds (2004-06). He studied in Japan at the University of Tsukuba and obtained his PhD from Cambridge. His publications cover areas including post-war Japanese rearmament and Anglo-Japanese relations.