Sayuri Shimizu: 2 books
Creating People of Plenty
The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“There is no doubt that the Eisenhower administration accomplished one of its paramount Cold War strategic objectives: to rebuild Japan’s economy and reinstate the nation as a stabilizing, pro-capitalist member in the new world order that had come out of the morass of the Great Depression and...
Transpacific Field of Dreams
How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and...