p. cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, Introduction / Caroline Rose and Junko Tomaru -- Japan: Anglo-American rivalry and indifference -- The U.S., Britain, Japan and the issue of Casus Belli, 1951-52 / Futoshi Shibayama -- Great Britain and Japanese rearmament, 1950-1960 / John West -- Japan in British regional policy towards South-East Asia, 1945-1960 / Junko Tomaru -- Japan's re-emergence in regional and international organizations -- Japan at the Bandung Conference / Kweku Ampiah -- Japan's entry into ECAFE / Mie Oba -- Japan's struggle for UN membership, 1955 / Kaoru Kurusu -- Japanese and US domestic constraints on foreign policy -- The Lucky Dragon incident: a failure of crisis management / John Swenson-Wright -- The revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and Okinawa / Robert Eldridge -- Factional and domestic political constraints on Japanese diplomacy in the 1950 -- Breaking the deadlock: Japan's informal diplomacy with China, 1958-59 / Caroline Rose -- Conclusion: John Weste