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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814911303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-136-70567-8

1-283-44244-2

9786613442444

1-136-70568-6

0-203-81423-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

Bayard-SakaiAnne

LozerandEmmanuel <1960->

LuckenMichael

StockwinJ. A. A (James Arthur Ainscow)

Disciplina

952.04

Soggetti

Japan Civilization 1945-

Japan Intellectual life 1945-

Japan Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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