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While the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 aimed at the demilitarization, democratization and decentralization of Japan, the occupation authorities under Gen. Mac Arthur effected a large number of sweeping changes in almost all areas of Japanese national life. Although the Japanese progressive groups hailed the GIs as liberators, the conservative government, which saw these reforms as alien to the national character, was ever trying to thwart them. This book centres around the several U.S. attempts between 1947-49 at a peace treaty with Japan against the backdrop of super power rivalry in the Pacific region and presents the views of political leaders in the opposition and the government in Japan and those of other countries as well as the views of Japanese intellectuals. Already in use as material for courses on Japanese foreign policy in the Karnataka and Gulabarga universities, this book could be gainfully adopted by students of international relations, are studies, Japanese history, government and foreign policy and as support material for the study of super power diplomacy in East Asia. About the Author R.P. Misra is an eminent scholar of development studies, urban and regional planning and rural economics. Among the positions he has held are Professor of Geography and Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore, Vice Director, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan, and Vice Chancellor, Allahabad University. Author of over ten books and editor of twenty five volumes on emerging development issues, he has been a frequent contributor to literary journals on regional planning, urban and rural development and environmental problems. The multinational comparative study on regional development which he undertook while at UNCRD resulted in is work Rural Development: Capitalist and Socialist Paths in five volumes (Concept, 1985). Prof. Misra is currently heading the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, besides being Director, Gandhi Bhawan, Delhi University, and Chairman, IGU Commission on International Division of Labour and Regional Development.