Japan since 1945 [[electronic resource] ] : from postwar to post-bubble / / edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.0952
• Soggetto geografico: Japan History 1945-
• Altri autori: GerteisChristopher <1968-> GeorgeTimothy S
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; 1 Revisiting the History of Postwar Japan; Part 1 Civic Imaginations; 2 The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura; Founding the museum; Creating an antifascist back-story; Deconstructing the canon and the nation; 3 Furusato-zukuri: Saving Home Towns by Reinventing Them; The background in Minamata: Success and tragedy; Approaches to furusato-zukuri; Tsumago: Historic townscape preservation; Otaru: Preserving a twentieth-century cityscape; Uwa: A more typical version of furusato-zukuri? ; Furusato-zukuri in Minamata Conclusion: Bringing rural towns and cities back in; 4 Searching for Furusato in Kaminoseki; Part 2 Legacies of War and Occupation; 5 Dreaming Ryūkyū: Shifting and Contesting Identities in Okinawa; The genesis of a Ryūkyūan imagined nation; From imagining to inventing the Ryūkyū nation, 1945-47; On the defensive: Ryūkyūan culture and the reversion movement; Asserting identity and resisting the state; The empire strikes back: Politicization of Okinawa culture; Conclusion; 6 Beyond the Black Market: Neighborhood Associations and Food Rationing in Postwar Japan ; The rationing system and tonarigumi Rationing as daily practice; Mission impossible?; Conclusion; 7 Political Representation for Nurses in Postwar Japan; Historiography of invisibility; Women's suffrage and the nursing profession; Galvanized into political action; Securing political representation; Institutionalizing representation; Nurses and politics in Heisei Japan; Conclusion; 8 Japan's other Forgotten Soldiers; Japanese disabled war veterans during the occupation period; Birth of the Japan Disabled Veterans Association; The Revival of the military pension ; The problem of the white gown beggars The JDVA 's relationship with disabled American veterans; Part 3 State Policy for a Late-Capitalist Society; 9 The Post-industrialization of the Developmental State; The capitalist developmental state; Framing Japan's response to postindustrial society: Rinchō; The post-industrialization of the developmental state; Conclusion; 10 Reassessing Japan's "Big Bang": Twenty Years of Financial Regulatory Reform; Financial deregulation and administrative reform under the Big Bang; Transformation to a market-based financial system ; Failure to achieve broader societal goals Market allocation of capital to emerging growth industries; Tokyo as a leading financial center; 11 Endless Modernization: Fisheries Policy and Development in Postwar Japan; Modernization after modernization; Phase 1: Mechanical modernization of fishing; Phase 2: Modernizing through scientific resource management; Phase 3: Neoliberalism as modernization; Conclusion; Part 4 Looking Out, Looking Back; 12 Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways in Postwar Japan; Japan's postwar relationship with mediatized "Amerika" ; Pan Am and Japan's national sport
• Sommario/riassunto: Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan's significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays that comprise Japan Since 1945 demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance. Examining the historical context to the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar development, the contributors re-engage earlier discourses and introduce new veins of research. Japan Since 1945 provides a much needed update to existing scholarly work on the history of contemporary Japa
• Titolo autorizzato: Japan since 1945
• ISBN: 1-4411-4144-8; 1-283-85350-7; 1-4411-1946-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786098903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II