A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: Rethinking Kasutori Society 103253205X, 9781032532059

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A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: Rethinking Kasutori Society
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This book is a political and cultural history of the early postwar Japan aiming at exploring how the perception and cult

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Shunsuke Tsurumi, one of Japans most distinguished contemporary philosophers, continues his study of the intellectual an

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Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the

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Japan: A Short Cultural History was first published in 1931 by the Cresset Press in London and D. Appleton in New York.

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Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the

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Decades before Americans cheered on Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball fans swooned over Babe Ruth. And a century prior to

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‘A splendid contribution to the new wave of scholarship that is forcing a different approach to our ages-old fascination

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This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War I

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His novel approach highlights the importance of the Paralympics and the impact that disability sports have had on Japane

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Memories can be shared—or contested. Japan and Korea, just one case in point, share centuries of intertwined history, th

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