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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790736603321

Autore

Waswo Ann

Titolo

Housing in postwar Japan : a social history / / Ann Waswo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-367-02696-1

1-315-02910-3

1-136-86090-8

1-136-86083-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Disciplina

363.5/0952/09045

Soggetti

Housing - Japan - History - 20th century

Japan Social conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by RoutledgeCurzon.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Experiencing the Housing Crisis, by Ky6ko Sasaki; 3. Housing Policy in Early Postwar Japan; 4. Toward a Lifestyle Revolution; 5. Selling the Home Ownership Dream; 6. Housing in Greater Tokyo; 7. Japanese Housing at Century's End; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Radical changes in the design of housing in post-war Japan had numerous effects on the Japanese people. Public policy toward housing provision and the effects of escalating land prices in Tokyo and a few other very large cities in the country from the mid- to late 1970s onward are examined, but it is dwellings themselves and the slow but steady shift from a floor-sitting to a chair-sitting housing culture in urban and suburban parts of the country that figure most prominently in the discussion. Central to the book is the author's translation of an account written by Kyoko Sasaki, an observ