Japan S Postwar History

Author : Gary D Allinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000947038

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Japan'S Postwar History by Gary D Allinson Pdf

First Published in 1997. This comprehensive survey of Japan's post-war history integrates analysis of political, economic, and social topics. It presents the rapid, complex and sometimes contradictory evolution of Japan in an enviably clear style and provides an unrivalled textbook for students seeking a balanced and accessible introduction to modern Japan. The outcome of nearly 30 years’ experience of teaching, researching, and writing Japanese history, Japan's Post-war History offers an analysis of political relationships, institutions and behaviour at local, national and inter­national levels. Economic aspects of Japan's recent history receive equal attention and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the agricultural, manufacturing and service industries are examined within the context of Japan's role as an international trading power. Material standards of living, the behaviour of Japanese as consumers, and the gradual shift in the role of women are also investigated. Given the deep-seated continuities between pre- and post-war Japan, the book also examines in detail the thirteen years before 1945 which imparted many legacies that have profoundly influenced contemporary Japan.

Author : Gary D. Allinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1501746499

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Japan's Postwar History by Gary D. Allinson Pdf

Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Akiko Takenaka
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824856939

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Yasukuni Shrine by Akiko Takenaka Pdf

This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine’s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan’s modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni’s history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan’s wars of imperialism to the present. Author Akiko Takenaka departs from existing scholarship on Yasukuni by considering various themes important to the study of war and its legacies through a chronological and thematic survey of the shrine, emphasizing the spatial practices that took place both at the shrine and at regional sites associated with it over the last 150 years. Rather than treat Yasukuni as a single, unchanging ideological entity, she takes into account the social and political milieu, maps out gradual transformations in both its events and rituals, and explicates the ideas that the shrine symbolizes. Takenaka illuminates the ways the shrine’s spaces were used during wartime, most notably in her reconstructions, based on primary sources, of visits by war-bereaved military families to the shrine during the Asia-Pacific War. She also traces important episodes in Yasukuni’s postwar history, including the filing of lawsuits against the shrine and recent attempts to reinvent it for the twenty-first century. Through a careful analysis of the shrine’s history over one and a half centuries, her work views the making and unmaking of a modern militaristic Japan through the lens of Yasukuni Shrine. Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar is a skilled and innovative examination of modern and contemporary Japan’s engagement with the critical issues of war, empire, and memory. It will be of particular interest to readers of Japanese history and culture as well as those who follow current affairs and foreign relations in East Asia. Its discussion of spatial practices in the life of monuments and the political use of images, media, and museum exhibits will find a welcome audience among those engaged in memory, visual culture, and media studies.

Author : Michael Lucken,Anne Bayard-Sakai,Emmanuel Lozerand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136705687

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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 : Christopher Gerteis,Timothy S. George
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441119469

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Japan Since 1945 by Christopher Gerteis,Timothy S. George Pdf

Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan's significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays that comprise Japan Since 1945 demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance. Examining the historical context to the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar development, the contributors re-engage earlier discourses and introduce new veins of research. Japan Since 1945 provides a much needed update to existing scholarly work on the history of contemporary Japan. It moves beyond the 'lost decade' and 'terrible devastation' frameworks that have thus far defined too much of the discussion, offering a more nuanced picture of the nation's postwar development.

Author : Makoto Iokibe,Translated and Annotated by Robert D. Eldridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Kaoru Iokibe,Kazuo Komiya,Yūichi Hosoya,Taizō Miyagi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1626378851

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History, Memory, and Politics in Postwar Japan by Kaoru Iokibe,Kazuo Komiya,Yūichi Hosoya,Taizō Miyagi Pdf

"Explores Japan's historical narratives, and their impact on both domestic politics and diplomatic relations, as they have evolved from 1946 to the present"--

Author : Curtis Anderson Gayle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Shunsuke Tsurumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : William D. Hoover
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Ulv Hanssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429823817

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Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan by Ulv Hanssen Pdf

Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan’s history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar period, whilst providing an explanation for the much-debated security policy changes under Abe Shinzō. Analyzing the ways identities can be constructed through ‘temporal othering,’ as well as ‘spatial othering,’ this book examines the rise of a new form of identity in Japan since the end of the Cold War, one that is differentiated not from prewar and wartime Japan, but from postwar Japan. The champions of this identity, it argues, see the postwar past as a shameful period, characterized by self-imposed military restrictions, and thus the relentless chipping away of these limitations in recent years is indicative of how dominant this identity has become. Exploring how these military restrictions have shifted from being a symbol of pride to a symbol of shame, this book demonstrates the concrete ways in which the past can both enable and constrain policy. Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese politics and foreign policy, as well as international relations more generally.

Author : Yoshiko Nozaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134195909

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War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan by Yoshiko Nozaki Pdf

The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945), and which have been challenged by critics who favour more critical, peace and justice perspectives, goes to the heart of Japan’s sense of itself as a nation. The degree to which Japan is willing to confront its past is not just about history, but also about how Japan defines itself at present, and going forward. This book examines the history textbook controversy in Japan. It sets the controversy in the context of debates about memory, and education, and in relation to evolving politics both within Japan, and in Japan’s relations with its neighbours and former colonies and countries it invaded. It discusses in particular the struggles of Ienaga Saburo, who has made crucial contributions, including through three epic lawsuits, in challenging the official government position. Winner of the American Educational Research Association 2009 Outstanding Book Award in the Curriculum Studies category.

Author : Ann Waswo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Julian Dierkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135193638

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Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys by Julian Dierkes Pdf

How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction? History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national identities. Because the content of history education was controlled by different actors, history education materials framed national identity in very different ways. In Japan, where the curriculum was controlled by bureaucrats bent on maintaining their purported neutrality, materials focused on the empirical building blocks of history (who? where? what?) at the expense of discussions of historical responsibility. In East Germany, where party cadres controlled the curriculum, students were taught that World War II was a capitalist aberration. In (West) Germany, where teachers controlled the curriculum, students were taught the lessons of shame and then regeneration after historians turned away from grand national narratives. This book shows that constructions of national identity are not easily malleable on the basis of moral and political concerns only, but that they are subject to institutional constraints and opportunities. In an age when post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation has become a major focus of international policies, the analysis offers important implications for the parallel revision of portrayals of national history and the institutional reconstruction of policy-making regimes.