The other Japan : conflict, compromise, and resistance since 1945 / edited with an introduction by Joe Moore for the Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Joe, 1939-

Series:

Japan in the modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Social conditions--1945-.

Japan.

Social conditions.

Japan--Economic conditions--1945-1989.

Economic conditions.

Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.

Physical Description:

xvi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1997]

Summary:

Addresses major social, environmental, and feminist issues and conflicts that have attended Japan's postwar "economic miracle."

Contents:

I New Day

Old Confict

1 Production Control: Workers' Control in Early Postwar Jopen / JOe Moore

2 The 1960 Miike Coal Mine Dispute:Turning Point for Adversarial Unionism in Japan? / John Price

II Paying the Bill: Costs of the Miraculous Growth of the 1960s.

3 Sanya: Japan's Internal Coloy / Brett de Bary

4 Shimizu Ikko's Silver Sanctuary (Gin no seiiki): AJapanese business Novel, Translated and introduced / Tamae K. Prindle

5 Japanese Corporate Zen, Brian (Daizen) Victorai

6 Ishimure Michiko's The Boy Yamanaka Kuhei, Translated / Christopher Stevens

III Resistance and the Rise of New Movements for Social Change in the 1970s.

7 The Birth of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1970s / Muto Ichiyo

IV japan and the Changing International Division of Labor

8 Japanse Agriculture Today: TheRoots of Decay / Ohno Kazuoki

9 Japanse Investment in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia: A Decade of JASEAN / Rob Steven

V Restructuring Society for Capitalist Efficiency in the International Division of Labor

10 Nuclear Power Plant Gypsies in High-Tech Society / Yuki Tanaka

11 Dilemmas and Accmmodatins of Married Japanese Women in Whit-Collar Employment / Atsumi Reiko

12 The Problem of Foreign Workers in Contemporary Japan / John Lie

VI Tarnished Miracles

Rising Hopes

14 Mr. Tomino Goes to City Hall: Grass-Roots Democracy in Zushi City, Japan / Kenneth J. Ruoff

15 Five Poems (1974-1991)by Hiroshima Poet Kurihara Sadako, Translated and inttoduced / Richard H.minear

Conclusion

16 Democracy and Capitalism in Postwar Japan / Joe Moore.

Notes:

"An East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1563248670

1563248689

OCLC:

35548830