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This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student
radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively
engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the
emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s
influenced the nation's embrace of the idea that 'the postwar' had
ended. Attentive to the shifting spatial and temporal boundaries of
'postwar Japan,' it elucidates previously neglected histories of
student and zainichi Korean activism and their interactions with
the Japanese Communist Party. This book is a key read for scholars
in the field of Japanese history, social movements and postcolonial
studies, as well as the history of student radicalism.
In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period
from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United
States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on
Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have
selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life:
writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and
journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views
often reflect power relations between America and Japan,
particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of
them dealt with common themes - America's origins, its ethnic
diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations,
its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance - making clear that
while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they
rarely saw it as a role model.
In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period
from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United
States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on
Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have
selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life:
writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and
journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views
often reflect power relations between America and Japan,
particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of
them dealt with common themes - America's origins, its ethnic
diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations,
its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance - making clear that
while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they
rarely saw it as a role model.
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