Quick purchase of its industrial plant on easy terms), Johnson sees the imperialistic mentality as the defining style of AmericanĪctions and expectations abroad. From rape in Okinawa to the imposition of economic austerity in Indonesia (followed by the Moreover, he argues that American fat-headedness is not just confined to the upperĮchelons of the State Department. Johnson, this country's imperialistic aims. That the US has not significantly reduced or adjusted its military position after the fall of the Soviet Union reveals, to This insight became especially clear in the wake of the Cold Mission to protect the "free world" was a justification for empire. Pathbreaking exploration of Japan's economic renewal in MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1973) did he conclude that the US In fact, he wholeheartedly shared the assumption that America was the necessary guarantor of world peace. Studied the formation of Chinese communism, he was not in a position to witness the results of American power disinterestedly. He admits that as a naval officer after the Korean War, and as an academic who
Johnson begins his book with a confession. Victims of government policies kept secret from the American people. Interventionism, delivering a grim warning that the United States will soon experience severe reprisals (or "blowback") from the
In this timely book, noted Asian specialist Johnson (Japan: Who Governs?, 1994) addresses the effects of American global
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