In Client State, Gavan McCormack examines the current transformation of Japan, designed to meet the demands from Washington that Japan become the “Great Britain of the Far East.” Client State is an extraordinary documentation of Japan’s history and current submission to American policy at the loss of tradition, free speech, neighbouring allies and national consciousness in favour of military defense, government corruption and growing involvement in US global imperialism. This chilling work masterfully narrates a story of submission, corruption and the startling decline of Japan’s impressive economy, which has recently left over 1 million Japanese families on welfare and another 2 million in need.

“One of the most important writers in English at work today on all of the countries of Northeast Asia.” — Chalmers Johnson, President of the Japan Policy Research Institute, and author of Blowback

Gavan McCormack is Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. His recent books include The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence; Japan’s Contested Constitution and Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe.