ARCHITECTS OF OCCUPATION: American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan

摘要

The photo that appears on the book's cover aptly introduces one of Architects of Occupation 's main themes: Franklin D. Roosevelt looking away from the map to which Admiral William D. Leahy's pointer directs his audience suggests the president's tendency to "find analysis from outside official channels" rather than from the experts he appointed to do this job (29). Such expert analysis, however, would not go to waste as beginning in April 1945, Roosevelt's "poorly trained" successor Harry S. Truman relied "heavily on [these same] advisers and existing recommendations" to complete the war and plan postwar occupations (143). Dayna L. Barnes suggests that differences between postwar German and Japanese Occupation in part stem from this power transition and the differences in approach that the two men brought to the job.