With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan.

Mark E. Caprio is a member of the Department of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University.

Yoneyuki Sugita is Associate Professor of American History at Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

Introduction: The U.S. Occupation of Japan: A Secondary Affair: Innovation, Continuity and Compromise 1. Feeding the Nation: Food Policy, Land Reform, and Japan's Economic Recovery 2. Occupation Policy and Japanese Fisheries Management, 1945-1952 3. Protective Labor Legislation and Gender Equality: The Impact of the Occupation on Japanese Working Women 4. The Impact of the Occupation on Crime in Japan 5. Education Reform and History Textbooks in Occupied Japan 6. Universal Health Insurance: The Unfinished Reform of Japan's Healthcare System 7. Resident Aliens: Forging the Political Status of Koreans in Occupied Japan 8. Occupation Policy and Postwar Sino-Japanese Relations: Severing Economic Ties 9. A Secondary Affair: United States Economic Foreign Policy and Japan, 1945-1968