Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950–1964

Chapter 1 Japan in a bipolar world: an introduction

Chapter 2 Leaning to one side: Japanese diplomacy and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950–60

Chapter 3 Fire across the sea: Japanese security and the Sino-Soviet strategic rift, 1960–64

Chapter 4 Separating economics from politics: Japan’s trade with two planned economies, 1950–60

Chapter 5 Fishing in troubled waters: Japanese trade and the Sino-Soviet economic schism, 1960–64

Chapter 7 When brothers fight: Japanese Socialism and the Sino-Soviet ideological dispute, 1962–64

Chapter 8 Wishful thinking: Japan’s public debate on the Sino-Soviet relationship, 1950–62

Chapter 9 Independent thinking: Japanese civil society and the open Sino-Soviet split, 1962–64

Chapter 10 Japan and the drift towards multipolarisation: concluding thoughts