02702oam 2200613I 450 991045361300332120200520144314.00-367-02696-11-315-02910-31-136-86090-81-136-86083-510.4324/9781315029108 (CKB)2550000001172086(EBL)1583148(SSID)ssj0001305793(PQKBManifestationID)11743415(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001305793(PQKBWorkID)11273546(PQKB)10937178(MiAaPQ)EBC1583148(Au-PeEL)EBL1583148(CaPaEBR)ebr10875604(CaONFJC)MIL553391(OCoLC)866858311(OCoLC)958103964(EXLCZ)99255000000117208620180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHousing in postwar Japan a social history /Ann WaswoLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (156 p.)First published 2002 by RoutledgeCurzon.0-7007-1517-7 1-306-22140-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexRadical 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 observHousingJapanHistory20th centuryJapanSocial conditions1945-Electronic books.HousingHistory363.5/0952/09045Waswo Ann250785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453613003321Housing in postwar Japan2220000UNINA