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Japan: The enigma of American power

Japan: The enigma of American power

January 7, 1999 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Washington Quarterly

“The Japanese can neither love the Americans nor endure being loved by them.” —Ambassador Sir Oliver Morland to the British Foreign Office, 1963(1) The air station at Kadena is not merely the largest of the 39 U.S. military bases in…

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