About the Author

Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Reviews

A strikingly revisionist argument… What you get from Iriye’s book is not the traditional picture of Japan and the United States locked in irreconcilable conflict, but rather a portrait of two enemies moving along compatible lines toward a viable rapprochement.
*Robert Dallek, University of California, Los Angeles*