- 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
Harvard East Asian Monographs 199
Unfinished Business
Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.–Japan Relations, 1937–1953
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Publication Date: 12/01/2003
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