Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan 9780824840358

Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism 9780231505611

This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the

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Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520318007

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Socialist parties in postwar Japan

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Postwar Japan as History 9780520911444

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

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Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan 9781501725852

Waste is an elegant history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of

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The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan 9780824865733

In 2002 a manga (comic book) was for the first time successfully charged with the crime of obscenity in the Japanese cou

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The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan 9780824837563

Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth.

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Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan 9780824863593

Between 1932 and 1945, more than 320,000 Japanese emigrated to Manchuria in northeast China with the dream of becoming l

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Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City 9780226826288

A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race. Saul Alinsky is the most famo

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Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan 9781501725852, 1501725858

In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in ter

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