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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayard-Sakai, Anne.

Lozerand, Emmanuel, 1960-

Lucken, Michael.

Stockwin, J. A. A. (James Arthur Ainscow)

Series:

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series

Standardized Title:

Japon après la guerre. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization--1945-.

Japan.

Japan--Intellectual life--1945-.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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 politi

Contents:

pt. 1. The multiplicity of chronologies, or the postwar contested

pt. 2. Intellectuals facing the future

pt. 3. How should one speak? the poets' response

pt. 4. Forgetting, commemoration, diversion : the regimes of memory

pt. 5. Complex experiences : society on the road to democracy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-70567-8

1-283-44244-2

9786613442444

1-136-70568-6

0-203-81423-1

9780203814239

OCLC:

773567123