Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1953
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Economic Internationalism: Ayukawa and American Business Interests Before 1937
  • Formation of the Nissan Conglomerate
  • Ayukawa's Business Negotiations with GM and Ford
  • 2. Ayukawa's Involvement in Manchukuo
  • Military Imperatives and Bureaucratic Bungling
  • The Origins of MIDC
  • Ayukawa's Involvement
  • 3. Ayukawa's Initial Overtures to American Business
  • Manchukuo's Trade with the United States
  • Ayukawa's Initial Efforts to Contact American Business
  • American-Style Agriculture and Japanese Americans
  • H. Foster Bain
  • 4. Ayukawa's Negotiations with Ford, 1937-1940
  • 5. An Unfinished Dream: Economic Diplomacy, 1937-1940
  • The Jewish Refugee Question in the Far East
  • Dealings with Franz Moedlhammer
  • The National City Bank, U.S. Steel, and the State Department
  • Dealings with H. Otto Schundler
  • Mesta Machine
  • 6 Ayukawa's Search for De Facto U.S. Recognition of Manchukuo
  • William O. Inglis
  • Joseph Grew and Eugene Dooman
  • Ayukawa's Trip to Europe and Plans to Visit the United States
  • Dillon, Read and Company and the John F. O'Ryan Mission
  • 7 Efforts for Peace: Ayukawa and Hoover in 1941
  • Ayukawa, Bain, Takasaki, and Hoover
  • Ayukawa's and Hoover's Efforts to Avoid War
  • 8 MIDC's Downfall and Ayukawa's Activities During the Pacific War
  • Changing Tides in Manchukuo's Economy
  • Ayukawa and the Automobile Industry in Japan and Manchukuo
  • Bureaucratic Nightmare in Manchukuo
  • 9 Re-creating a Common Interest: U.S.-Japan Relations, 1945-1948
  • Thoughts and Activities of Ayukawa's Friends, 1945-1947
  • Hoover's Political Comeback After May 1945
  • Ayukawa's Postwar Activities, 1947-1948
  • 10 Old Ideas Persist: Ayukawa and Foreign Capital and Technology, 1949-1953
  • Ayukawa's Negotiations with Dillon, Read and Company
  • Ayukawa's Talks with David Lilienthal
  • Ayukawa's Activities After 1952
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Reference Matter
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs