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JOURNEY TO THE MISSOURI BY TOSHIKAZU KASE Former Member of the Japanese Foreign Office EDITED WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID NELSON ROWE Professor of Political Science Research Associate, Institute of International Studies Yale University NEW HAVEN Yale University Press LONDON GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS COPYRIGHT, 1950, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form except by reviewers for the public press, without written permission from the publishers. TO Joseph C. Grew In appreciation of our old friendship Editors Foreword THIS VOLUME was written by its Japanese author in the English language and primarily for the American public. It is mainly concerned with the background of the Pacific war, the chief causes of Japans entry into that war and of her defeat, and the efforts of responsible Japanese, beginning as early as 1944, to bring the war to an end by surrender. To the student of contemporary Japan, however, the book is also important for its disclosure of the authors attitudes as they bear on problems of the present. They come out as he treats his main themes, and they are the attitudes of an American-educated former diplomat who served the Japanese Foreign Office in various responsible capacities around the world over a period of some twenty years. The views held by such an individual on the subjects and persons discussed here assume an especial significance as the sixth year of the occupation begins. The volume is particularly interesting in view of the fact that few if any of the many Japanese publications appearing since the surrender have been made generally available to the American public. Only one of the reasons for this is, of course, that very few Americans read the Japanese language. Mr. Kase must be given high praise for his courage and initiative in undertaking to write his book in English. One does not need to ask how many American dip