Japan's postwar / edited by Michael Lucken, Anne Bayard-Sakai and Emmanuel Lozerand ; translated by J.A.A. Stockwin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lucken, Michael.

Bayard-Sakai, Anne.

Lozerand, Emmanuel, 1960-

Series:

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series

Standardized Title:

Japon après la guerre. English.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization--1945-.

Japan.

Civilization.

Japan--Intellectual life--1945-.

Intellectual life.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

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 Postwarwill appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies and Modern Japanese History as well as historians studying the world after 1945.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Lucken

The postwar as a political paradigm / Eric Seizelet

The evolution of the concept of postwar

education / Christian Galan

Maruyama Masao, from autonomy to pacifism / Jacques Joly

In the time, after the defeat : Sakaguchi Ango, Takeda Taijun, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1946-1948) / Emmanuel Lozerand

Yasuoka Masahiro, a conservative vision of the postwar / Eddy Dfourmont

Genzai, here and now : notes for a reflection on the values of the present in the poetry of Tamura Ryuichi and of Ayukawa Nobuo / Karine Arneodo

Speaking silence : the poetry of Ishihara Yoshiro / Makiko Andro-Ueda

Forgetting, commemoration, diversion : the regimes of memory : the literary institution and the case of the Akutagawa Prize / Anne Bayard-Sakai

The peace statue in Nagasaki / Michael Lucken

Repression of history and engagement of bodies : birth of action art at the beginning of the 1960s / Anne Gossot

The red purges and the democratisation of Japan, 1949-1962 / Brice Fauconnier

Labour relations during the years of high growth / Bernard Thomann

The postwar for workers' unionism and movements against industrial pollution / Paul Jobin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415605380

0415605385

9780203814239

0203814231

OCLC:

654316801