Japan's Postwar History presents the first integrated analysis of the social, economic, and political changes that Japan has experienced since 1945. Drawing on more than three decades of first-hand experience with the country, Gary D. Allinson depicts a dynamic, often turbulent history and illuminates its impact on individuals, families, and communities. Between 1932 and 1952, war, devastation, and foreign occupation caused significant changes in Japan. However, the society that emerged during the 1950s still resembled its prewar predecessor in many ways, according to Allinson. Thereafter, by exploiting a fortunate combination of domestic and international conditions the Japanese people ushered in twenty years of extensive development. Growth created problems as well as profits and imposed some wrenching adjustments after the world economic crises of 1973 and 1979. Nonetheless, Japanese society steadily assimilated the benefits of affluence, Allinson argues. Until worldwide recession drew Japan into a severe economic downturn in the late 1980s, it continued to adapt to the social and political demands of a rich nation enmeshed in a global economy. By the mid-1990s, Japan had reached the end of a cycle of historical change. Plagued with uncertainty and striving to find a formula for regeneration, Japan once again found itself confronting the dilemmas of inequality, instability, and insecurity.
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Gary D. Allinson is Ellen Bayard Weedon Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan (also from Cornell), The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History, Suburban Tokyo, and Japanese Urbanism.
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Gary Allinson delivers an excellent summary of the post war history of Japan and the major trends that occurred following World War II. Overall it is a quick read with a focus on the societal and economic changes. He also touches on cultural and political changes but does not go into a great deal of detail. If you know very little about post war Japan this is a great place to start but not for the experienced reader in those areas.
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Japón de la postguerra,
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Me interesa saber datos específicos de la postguerra en el Japón, el nacimiento de los zaibatzu y el surgimiento de la economía japonesa que le dio el título de nuevo imperialismo japonés, o "el milagro japonés.
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MORE THAN TWO GENERATIONS HAD passed since Japan's modern revolution, the Meiji Restoration of 1868, but many residues of old regimes still lingered in 1932. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Great Britain, West Germany, Korean War, Courtesy of Robert, Ministry of Home Affairs, Tanaka Kakuei, World War, House of Representatives, Meiji Constitution, Ministry of Finance, Army Signal Corps, Courtesy of Patricia, Hosokawa Morihiro, Ikeda Hayato, Japan Socialist Party, Liberal Democratic Party, North Korea, Takeshita Noboru, Yoshida Shigeru, Banana Yoshimoto, Home Ministry New!
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MORE THAN TWO GENERATIONS HAD passed since Japan's modern revolution, the Meiji Restoration of 1868, but many residues of old regimes still lingered in 1932. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Great Britain, West Germany, Korean War, Courtesy of Robert, Ministry of Home Affairs, Tanaka Kakuei, World War, House of Representatives, Meiji Constitution, Ministry of Finance, Army Signal Corps, Courtesy of Patricia, Hosokawa Morihiro, Ikeda Hayato, Japan Socialist Party, Liberal Democratic Party, North Korea, Takeshita Noboru, Yoshida Shigeru, Banana Yoshimoto, Home Ministry New!
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- Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan by Gary D. Allinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi on page 153, and Back Matter
- Suburban Tokyo: A Comparative Study in Politics and Social Change (Center for Japanese Studies) by Gary D. Allinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Still Life and Other Stories (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) by Junzo Shono on page 80, and Back Matter
- The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki on page 31, and Back Matter
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