Mobilizing Japanese Youth : : The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation / / Christopher Gerteis.

In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan—left-wing radicals and right-wing activists—attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 15 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 13 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction: The Nexus of Gender, Class, and Generation
  • 1. Unions, Youth, and the Cold War
  • 2. The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Red Army
  • 3. Political Alienation and the Sixties Generation
  • 4. Cold War Warriors
  • 5. Motorboat Gambling and Morals Education
  • Epilogue: Life and Democracy in Postwar Japan
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University