Mobilizing Japanese youth : the Cold War and the making of the sixties generation / Christopher Gerteis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerteis, Christopher, 1968- author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Political activity--Japan--History--20th century.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Examines the forces that shaped the political consciousness of Japanese youth who chose to engage in political violence during the 1960s and 1970s. The book argues in part that the intertwined political rhetoric of the far left and far right precipitated further levels of social alienation that helped to define the political consciousness of the 'Sixties Generation' well into the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Unions, youth and the Cold War

The rise and fall of the Japanese Red Army

Political alienation and the sixties generation

Cold war warriors

Motorboat gambling and morals education

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1-5017-5632-X

OCLC:

1200832171