Postwar Japan as history / Andrew Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Andrew, 1952- Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--1945-.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (510 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan's extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. A provocative set of interpretative essays by eminent scholars, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Japan and the dilemmas facing Japan today.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict

2. Japan's Position in the World System

3. The Past in the Present

4. Growth Versus Success: Japan's Economic Policy in Historical Perspective

5. The Structure and Transformation of Conservative Rule

6. Negotiating Social Contracts

7. Dialectics of Economic Growth, National Power, and Distributive Struggles

8. Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Ideologies, Institutions, and Everyday Life

9. Formations of Mass Culture

10. Consuming and Saving

11. The Death of "Good Wife, Wise Mother"?

12. Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place

13. Altered States: The Body Politics of "Being-Woman"

14. Contests for the Workplace

15. Intellectuals and Politics

16. The Dynamics of Political Opposition

Conclusion

GLOSSARY

CONTRIBUTORS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612356131

9781282356139

1282356135

9780585105208

0585105200

9780520911444

052091144X

OCLC:

42922731