Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Japan's Entry into the War and the Twenty-One Demands American Response to the Twenty-One Demands Who Should Lead China into the War? The Lansing-Ishii Agreement Siberian Intervention Wilsonian Idealism and Japanese Claims at the Paris Peace Conference Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

NORIKO KAWAMURA is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University./e Educated in Japan and in the U.S., her previous teaching assignments include the Virginia Military Institute. Her present research interests focus upon Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War.

Reviews

?[n]o recent English-language monograph has solely addressed the wartime diplomacy between the teo nations.... Turbulence in the Pacific is a marvelously well-researched and compelling argued book that demonstrates the intricacies of intercultural diplomacy.?-Army History

?Noriko Kawamura has written the best book we have on Woodrow Wilson''s confrontation with Japan during World War I and in the peace conference that followed.?-The Journal of Military History

?The author sheds new light on important dimensions of some of the easly phases of the long process of mutual estrangement that led eventually to Pearl Harbor.?-Choice

"Ýn¨o recent English-language monograph has solely addressed the wartime diplomacy between the teo nations.... Turbulence in the Pacific is a marvelously well-researched and compelling argued book that demonstrates the intricacies of intercultural diplomacy."-Army History

"Noriko Kawamura has written the best book we have on Woodrow Wilson''s confrontation with Japan during World War I and in the peace conference that followed."-The Journal of Military History

"The author sheds new light on important dimensions of some of the easly phases of the long process of mutual estrangement that led eventually to Pearl Harbor."-Choice

"[n]o recent English-language monograph has solely addressed the wartime diplomacy between the teo nations.... Turbulence in the Pacific is a marvelously well-researched and compelling argued book that demonstrates the intricacies of intercultural diplomacy."-Army History