Auteur: Koji Ito

Mayako Shimamoto is currently an independent scholar. Her current interests cover US atomic diplomacy in the early Cold War, postwar nuclear energy issues in US-Japan relations, and Japan’s present-day nuclear policy. She continues to do research on these subjects, while giving talks at universities either in Japan or abroad.Koji Ito is a Ph D student of American history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major works include “The Price of National Prestige: An Interpretation of the Japan-US Confrontation over Hawaii at the Turn of the Century, ” American Review, Vol. 46 (March, 2012), 33-50, and “Politics in the Dark: An Interpretation of the Japan-US War Crisis over Hawaii in 1897, ” Doshisha American Studies Supplement, Vol. 20 (April 2013), 53-72.Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of American history at Osaka University. His major works include « US Strategic Preference for Securing Military Bases and Impact of Japanese Financial Community on Constrained Rearmament in Japan, 1945-1954,  » in Peter N. Stearns ed., Demilitarization in the Contemporary World (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013); Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 (New York: Routledge, 2003).