미일 교섭의 개시 - 미일 양해안의 성립과 미 국무부 관료들의 대응 -

Abstract

In 1940, when France surrendered in Germany and the transition of World War II was greatly changed, the Japanese government tried to contributes to the victory of the German war through the Tripartite Pact, and to establish dominance to the whole East Asian region. The most important challenge for this was the solution of the Sino-Japanese War. Japan tried to keep Japan-China Basic Relations Treaty, and wanted to maintain political and economic dominance in the China continent after the end of the Sino-Japanese War. Meanwhile, the US government cooperated with the British, engaged in European battlefield to respond to the threat of Germany in the Atlantic Ocean, and they established a war plan to defeat Germany. In addition to Germany, the United States was prepared for the attacks of Japan, and established concurrent war performance plans over the Atlantic and Pacific, and shared it with the UK.<BR> Japan-US relationships were deteriorated by Tripartite Pact, a Military Alliance for the purpose of attack America, and America’s selecting the support for China and the strengthening of economic sanctions against Japan. In such a situation, American and Japanese people who have felt a sense of crisis are promoted between the intergovernmental dialogue for the Japan and US, and such efforts made US-Japan appreciation document established and Japan-US negotiations start. The John Doe Associates, a semi-official and a semi-civillian organization wrote US-Japan appreciation document. It shows that Japan will reduce the possibility of attacking US by she interprets Triparite Pack more generously. In order to solve the Sino-Japanese war problem, the US Government will promise to cooperate Japanese government, so she can maintain paramount status in the continental China. Most of the Japanese government officials were satisfied with the document, but the Matsuoka Yosuke Foreign Minister, who thought the Tripartite Pact is critical for Japan’s future, denied this ‘give-and-take’ proposal.<BR> Meanwhile, the bureaucrats in the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, thought that the expansion of Japan