The First U.S.-Japanese War: The Grand strategies of the United States and Japan -- The Emergence of the U.S. and Japanese empires -- Struggle for supremacy -- The Armistice: U.S. plans for Japan in the Postwar world -- The Cold War and the resurrection of Japan -- Japan's economic miracle: becoming normal again -- Japan's nightmare: imports and dependency -- The Origins of the second U.S.-Japanese war: America's reality: the regionalization of conflict -- America's strategic options: coping with empire -- Japan's reality: regional power, global needs -- Japan's strategic options: return to empire -- Japan's second pacific war: Can Japan rearm? Japan's moral dilemma -- The Japanese self-defense forces -- Collision course

1. United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan
2. Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States
3. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
4. Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1945-