Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History : : A Handbook / / ed. by Simon Avenell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• HerausgeberIn: Avenell, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks on Japanese Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the country’s rebirth as an economic powerhouse and exemplar of liberal democracy in East Asia. This handbook expands and enriches our understanding of this tumultuous contemporary era in J...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction: Imagining Japan’s Postwar Era
• Part 1: The Origins of the Postwar
• 1 Rethinking Imperial Legacies and the Cold War in Allied Occupied Japan
• 2 Money, Banking, and Fiscal Reforms in Allied Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
• Part 2: The Political Postwar
• 3 Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy
• 4 Japanese Postwar Political History from Left to Right
• 5 Nationalism under the Banner of Pacifism: Japanese Atomic Bombing Sufferers’ Struggle against the State
• 6 Living with and Fighting against the Postwar Regime: Conservatism and Constitution in Postwar Japan
• Part 3: Postwar Culture and Society
• 7 Gendering Postwar Japan
• 8 Uncertain Futures, Destabilized Dreams
• 9 Education in Japan since 1945: Equality, Hierarchy, and Competition
• 10 From Raincoats to Ketchup: The Encroachment of Plastics during the High-growth Era (1955–1973)
• 11 Birds and Children as Barometers of Japan’s Postwar Environmental History
• 12 Japan’s Got Talent: The Rise of Tarento in Japanese Television Culture
• Part 4: The Transnational Postwar
• 13 Postwar Japanese Feminism in Transnational Perspective
• 14 Postwar Japanese History Seen through the Science of Reproductive and Population Politics
• Part 5: Japan’s Postwar in Asia and the World
• 15 Japan’s American Alliance: Forgoing Autonomy for Deterrence
• 16 The Endless Postwar: Okinawa at the Modern Frontier
• 17 Orders, Borders and Japan’s Identity
• 18 Manga, National Identity and Internationalization in Postwar Japan
• Part 6: Defining, Delineating, Historicizing and Chronologizing the Postwar Era
• 19 Discourses of War and Peace during Japan’s “Postwar”
• 20 Postwar in the Post-Cold War: Postwar in the Heisei Era
• Index