The Best Course Available: A Personal Account of the Secret U.S.-Japan Okinawa Reversion Negotiations

Contents

Editor’s Introduction 1 Preface to the English-Language Edition 17 Acknowledgments 27 The Best Course Available Chapter 1 The Transition to the Nixon Administration 33 Chapter 2 Denuclearized Reversion: The Prime Minister’s Decision 49 Chapter 3 Prime Minister Satò, Former Prime Minister Kishi, and President Nixon 64 Chapter 4 Establishing the Political Hotline 86 Chapter 5 The West Coast White House in San Clemente 119 Contents Chapter 6 Okinawa’s Nuclear Weapons and Textiles 148 Chapter 7 President Nixon’s “Ultimatum” 171 Chapter 8 Conveying Prime Minister Satò’s Counterproposals 185 Chapter 9 Top Secret Negotiations at the White House 202 Chapter 10 Writing the Script in Collaboration with Henry Kissinger 230 Chapter 11 A “Nuclear-Free, Homeland-Level” Reversion by 1972 253 Chapter 12 The Textiles Question 278 Chapter 13 “All I Can Do Is Await the Judgment of Future Historians” 300 Chapter 14 In the Dark Recesses of History 311 Afterword 332 Notes 337 Index 361 x Contents ...