427 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents
Foundations of Australian policy towards occupied Japan--Paradigms of occupation policy--Far Eastern Commission and the Allied Council for Japan--Ideological gap widens--Canberra intervenes : committees, treaties and a conference--Shaw period, 1947-1949--End of the Shaw-Labor era--Context of Australian policy towards the Japanese Labour Movement
Summary
Australia, social justice and labour reform in occupied Japan reveals the tensions between Australia and the USA over the progress of postwar reform in occupied Japan (1945-1952), especially on issues that were deemed ideologically sensitive in the developing Cold War context