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Online-Ressource (337 p)
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9781441101181
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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 Japa
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; 1 Revisiting the History of Postwar Japan; Part 1 Civic Imaginations; 2 The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura; Founding the museum; Creating an antifascist back-story; Deconstructing the canon and the nation; 3 Furusato-zukuri: Saving Home Towns by Reinventing Them; The background in Minamata: Success and tragedy; Approaches to furusato-zukuri; Tsumago: Historic townscape preservation; Otaru: Preserving a twentieth-century cityscape; Uwa: A more typical version of furusato-zukuri?
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Furusato-zukuri in MinamataConclusion: Bringing rural towns and cities back in; 4 Searching for Furusato in Kaminoseki; Part 2 Legacies of War and Occupation; 5 Dreaming Ryūkyū: Shifting and Contesting Identities in Okinawa; The genesis of a Ryūkyūan imagined nation; From imagining to inventing the Ryūkyū nation, 1945-47; On the defensive: Ryūkyūan culture and the reversion movement; Asserting identity and resisting the state; The empire strikes back: Politicization of Okinawa culture; Conclusion; 6 Beyond the Black Market: Neighborhood Associations and Food Rationing in Postwar Japan
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The rationing system and tonarigumiRationing as daily practice; Mission impossible?; Conclusion; 7 Political Representation for Nurses in Postwar Japan; Historiography of invisibility; Women's suffrage and the nursing profession; Galvanized into political action; Securing political representation; Institutionalizing representation; Nurses and politics in Heisei Japan; Conclusion; 8 Japan's other Forgotten Soldiers; Japanese disabled war veterans during the occupation period; Birth of the Japan Disabled Veterans Association; The Revival of the military pension
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The problem of the white gown beggarsThe JDVA 's relationship with disabled American veterans; Part 3 State Policy for a Late-Capitalist Society; 9 The Postindustrialization of the Developmental State; The capitalist developmental state; Framing Japan's response to postindustrial society: Rinchō; The postindustrialization of the developmental state; Conclusion; 10 Reassessing Japan's "Big Bang": Twenty Years of Financial Regulatory Reform; Financial deregulation and administrativere form under the Big Bang; Transformation to a market-based financial system
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Failure to achieve broader societal goalsMarket allocation of capital to emerging growth industries; Tokyo as a leading financial center; 11 Endless Modernization: Fisheries Policy and Development in Postwar Japan; Modernization after modernization; Phase 1: Mechanical modernization of fishing; Phase 2: Modernizing through scientific resource management; Phase 3: Neoliberalism as modernization; Conclusion; Part 4 Looking Out, Looking Back; 12 Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways in Postwar Japan; Japan's postwar relationship with mediatized "Amerika"
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Pan Am and Japan's national sport
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441141446
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441101181
Additional Edition:
Print version Japan Since 1945 : From Postwar to Post-Bubble
Language:
English
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