Showa Japan : the post-war golden age and its troubled legacy / Hans Brinckmann ; photographs by Ysbrand Rogge and Hans Brinckmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinckmann, Hans, 1932-

Contributor:

Rogge, Ysbrand.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--1945-1989.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

North Clarendon, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Japan's Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. The formative age of modern Japan, it was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan's recent history. Today, Showa is a beacon for nostalgia that is memorialized yearly in a national holiday. An era of growth and prosperity, it saw Japan go from an isolated, embattled nation to a peaceful country holding the exalted position of the world's second largest economy. Showa Japan is a clear-sighted exploration of the Showa era as it really was-not only a t

Contents:

pt. 1. A Showa perspective

pt. 2. The breathless eighties : from boom to bust

pt. 3. The Magellan decade : a post-bubble x-ray

pt. 4. Overcoming Showa.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-13823-9

9786613138231

1-4629-0026-7

OCLC:

730151928