Japan Since 1945
From Postwar to Post-Bubble
Timothy S George editor Christopher Gerteis editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:20th Dec '12
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Examines the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar and post-industrial trajectories.
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 Japan. It moves beyond the 'lost decade' and 'terrible devastation' frameworks that have thus far defined too much of the discussion, offering a more nuanced picture of the nation's postwar development.
Because of the quality of the individual contributions and its display of the current state of research, the book is without doubt a most warmly welcome and necessary addition to the reading lists of students and researchers of modern Japanese history. -- Till Knaudt, Heidelberg University * Japan Forum *
An excellent interdisciplinary collection of essays on "postwar" Japan, from 1945 to 2011 - from the ashes of defeat to the anxiety of decline. It deserves to be read not only for its fascinating glimpses of Japanese society, economy and culture, but also for the comparative light it implicitly sheds on other advanced capitalist societies and their not always acknowledged arcs of uneven historical change. -- Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University, USA
The book’s focus on the post-1945 period is a welcome update to the new-landmark 1993 collection Postwar Japan as History, which set the parameters of postwar Japanese historiography over the subsequent two decades. This volume may provide a similar function, engaging as it does with history’s influence on and by other disciplinary approaches in recent decades, notably in the fields of transnational history and memory and heritage studies. -- Mark Pendleton, University of Sheffield, UK * The Historian *
ISBN: 9781441101181
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 472g
336 pages