A History Of Postwar Japan

Author : Makoto Iokibe,Translated and Annotated by Robert D. Eldridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135267346

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The Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan by Makoto Iokibe,Translated and Annotated by Robert D. Eldridge Pdf

Winner of the prestigious Yoshida Shigeru Prize 1999 for the best book in public history when it was published in its original Japanese, this book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Japan’s international relations from the end of the Pacific War to the present. Written by leading Japanese authorities on the subject, it makes extensive use of the most recently declassified Japanese documents, memoirs, and diaries. It introduces the personalities and approaches Japan’s postwar leaders and statesmen took in dealing with a rapidly changing world and the challenges they faced. Importantly, the book also discusses the evolution of Japan’s presence on the international stage and the important – if underappreciated role – Japan has played. The book examines the many issues which Japan has had to confront in this important period: from the occupation authorities in the latter half 1940s, to the crisis-filled 1970s; from the post-Cold War decade to the contemporary war on terrorism. The book examines the effect of the changing international climate and domestic scene on Japan’s foreign policy; and the way its foreign policy has been conducted. It discusses how the aims of Japan’s foreign relations, and how its relationships with its neighbours, allies and other major world powers have developed, and assesses how far Japan has succeeded in realising its aims. It concludes by discussing the current state of Japanese foreign policy and likely future developments.

Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520074750

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Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon Pdf

As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan's extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. --From publisher's description.

Author : Shunsuke Tsurumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136146183

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A Cultural History of Postwar Japan 1945-1980 by Shunsuke Tsurumi Pdf

First Published in 1987. Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945 was an unprecedented event in Japanese history. The shift from the life of hunger to the life of saturation that took place between 1945 and 1980 has brought about a great change in life style. The significance of this change will be a subject of reassessment for many years to come. This books presents an outline of such a change in the domain of mass culture, a sector of Japanese culture most indicative of the change after the defeat and the subsequent economic recovery.

Author : Gary D. Allinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801489121

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Japan's Postwar History by Gary D. Allinson Pdf

The second edition of the book that provides a unique integrated analysis of Japan's social, political, and economic history from 1932 until the present day.

Author : Curtis Anderson Gayle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415559393

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Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan by Curtis Anderson Gayle Pdf

This book examines the emergence of women's history-writing groups in Japan in the decade following the end of World War II and the way in which these versions of history-writing went on to subsequently eclipse and outlive those being offered by Marxist historians.

Author : William D. Hoover
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810875395

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Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan by William D. Hoover Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan relates the history of postwar Japan through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations.

Author : Ann Waswo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136860904

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Housing in Postwar Japan - A Social History by Ann Waswo Pdf

Radical changes in the design of housing in post-war Japan had numerous effects on the Japanese people. Public policy toward housing provision and the effects of escalating land prices in Tokyo and a few other very large cities in the country from the mid- to late 1970s onward are examined, but it is dwellings themselves and the slow but steady shift from a floor-sitting to a chair-sitting housing culture in urban and suburban parts of the country that figure most prominently in the discussion. Central to the book is the author's translation of an account written by Kyoko Sasaki, an observant wife and mother, about the housing she and her growing family experienced during the 1960s, and subsequent chapters explore some of the issues that flow from her account. Chief among these are the small size and generally poor quality of the private-sector housing that Japanese of fairly ordinary means could afford to occupy in the early postwar years, the new design initiatives undertaken at about that time by public-sector housing providers and the diffusion of at least some of their initiatives to the housing sector as a whole, and the adjustments that the occupants of housing had to, or chose to, make as the dwellings available to them as renters or as owners changed in character. Attention is also paid to the structural requirements of dwellings and attitudes toward dwellings of diverse types in a country prone to earthquakes.

Author : Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400842988

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Bodies of Memory by Yoshikuni Igarashi Pdf

Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.

Author : Alessio Patalano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472526823

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Post-war Japan as a Sea Power by Alessio Patalano Pdf

In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond the traditional perspective of viewing the modern Japanese military in light of the country's alliance with the US. The book places the institution in a historical context, analysing its imperial legacy and the role of Japan's shattering defeat in WWII in the post-war emergence of Japan as East Asia's 'sea power'.

Author : Kaoru Iokibe,Kazuo Komiya,Yūichi Hosoya,Taizō Miyagi,Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. Political and Diplomatic Review Project
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1626378770

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History, Memory, & Politics in Postwar Japan by Kaoru Iokibe,Kazuo Komiya,Yūichi Hosoya,Taizō Miyagi,Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. Political and Diplomatic Review Project Pdf

Memories can be shared-or contested. Japan and Korea, just one case in point, share centuries of intertwined history, the nature of which continues to be disputed, particularly with regard to World War II. The authors of History, Memory, and Politics in Postwar Japan explore Japan's historical narratives, and their impact on both domestic politics and diplomatic relations, as they have evolved from 1946 to the present. Presenting the results of more than a decade of collaborative research, their book is a rich contribution to our understanding not only of Japanese politics, but also of how the historical narratives that we embrace have far-reaching consequences.

Author : Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501725852

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Waste by Eiko Maruko Siniawer Pdf

In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities and aspirations of the historical moment, and revealing people’s ever-changing concerns and hopes. Over the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan’s postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived. Waste is an elegant history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday.

Author : Justin Jesty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501715068

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Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty Pdf

Highlighting the transformational nature of the early postwar, Jesty deftly contrasts it with the relative stasis, consolidation, and homogenization of the 1960s.

Author : Masataka Kōsaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Japan
ISBN : 4770009976

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A History of Postwar Japan by Masataka Kōsaka Pdf

Author : Michael Lucken,Anne Bayard-Sakai,Emmanuel Lozerand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136705670

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Japan's Postwar by Michael Lucken,Anne Bayard-Sakai,Emmanuel Lozerand Pdf

Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar epoch and treat it as a network of historical time frames from the modern period, and connect these time capsules to the war to which they are inextricably linked. The books strength is in its very interdisciplinary approach to examining postwar Japan and as such it includes chapters centred on subjects as diverse as politics, poetry, philosophy, economics and art which serve to fill the blanks in the collective cultural memory that historical narratives leave behind. Originally published in French, this new translation offers the English speaking world important access to a major work on Japan which has been greatly enriched by the translator’s great accuracy and knowledge of English, French and Japanese language, history and culture. Japan's Postwar will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies and Modern Japanese History as well as historians studying the world after 1945.

Author : Scott O'Bryan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824832827

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The Growth Idea by Scott O'Bryan Pdf

Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O’Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese "growth performance" as "economic miracle" came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of the material changes that took place in Japan during the second half of the twentieth century we must also add perspectives that account for growth as a new idea around the world, one that emerged alongside rapid economic expansion in postwar Japan and underwrote the modes by which it was imagined, forecast, pursued, and regulated. In an accessible, lively style, O’Bryan traces the history of growth as an object of social scientific knowledge and as a new analytical paradigm that came to govern the terms by which Japanese understood their national purposes and imagined a newly materialist vision of social and individual prosperity. Several intersecting obsessions worked together after the war to create an agenda of social reform through rapid macroeconomic increase. Epistemological developments within social science provided the conceptual instruments by which technocrats gave birth to a shared lexicon of growth. Meanwhile, reformers combined prewar Marxist critiques with new modes of macroeconomic understanding to mobilize long-standing fears of overpopulation and "backwardness" and argue for a growthist vision of national reformation. O’Bryan also presents surprising accounts of the key role played by the ideal of full employment in national conceptions of recovery and of a new valorization of consumption in the postwar world that was taking shape. Both of these, he argues, formed critical components in a constellation of ideas that even in the context of relative poverty and uncertainty coalesced into a powerful vision of a materially prosperous future. Even as Japan became the premier icon of the growthist ideal, neither the faith in rapid growth as a prescription for national reform nor the ascendancy of social scientific epistemologies that provided its technical support was unique to Japanese experience. The Growth Idea thus helps to historicize a concept of never-ending growth that continues to undergird our most basic beliefs about the success of nations and the operations of the global economy. It is a particularly timely contribution given current imperatives to reconceive ideas of purpose and prosperity in an age of resource depletion and global warming.