Search Results for postwar Japan

... Mythology in Postwar Japan.” positions 16 , no. 3 : 711 – 42 . ———. 2010 . Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan . Berkeley : University of California Press . Barshay Andrew . 1998 . “Post-war Social and Political Thought...

...Simon Avenell Duke University Press 2008 From the “People” to the “Citizen”: Tsurumi Shunsuke and the Roots of Civic Mythology in Postwar Japan Simon Avenell What could be more emblematic of postwar Japanese democracy than the spontaneous birth...

...Yoshikuni Igarashi 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Unfinished Business of Mourning: Maruyama Masao and Postwar Japan’s Struggles with the Wartime Past Yoshikuni Igarashi The political scientist Maruyama Masao established himself as one...

...Kirsten Cather This article discusses the obscenity trial of director Oshima Nagisa's 1976 book In the Realm of the Senses , which includes a series of still photographs and the screenplay from his notorious film of the same name. The case illustrates how obscenity convictions in postwar Japan...

... Japan. The United States was already under the influence of the Bauhaus in the 1930s as evidenced in the establishments of Black Mountain College and the Chicago Bauhaus. The concept of progressive art education promoted by these schools eventually reached Japan through the postwar occupation, whose...

... ( seisansei ) integral to Japan's postwar economic resurgence. Prior to engaging Gotô's story, I demonstrate that the danchi was but one aspect of a thoroughgoing attempt to rationalize all aspects of urban existence; this was essentially Taylorism on a macroscopic scale. I move on to discuss Gotô's depiction...

... Historiography.” Russian Review 36 , no. 4 : 405 – 23 . Koschmann J. Victor . 1996 . Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe . 2002 . “Le courage de la poésie” (“The Courage of Poetry”) . In Heidegger, la...

... of chkan dantai that emerged as a central cultural force of postwar Japan, following their wartime exhibition projects to promote war-­related art.) This effort to democratize dantai must have been motivated by a desire to take advantage...

... of Certification of Pollution-Related Patients in the 1960s .” In “Science, Technology, and the State in East Asia: Experts and Politicians in Postwar Korea and Japan.” Special issue, Historia Scientiarum. Second Series: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan 21 , no. 3 : 211 – 27...

..., and between the United States and Japan. Especially in the long postwar period, these songs have invoked memories of the past and dreams for the future in making politically significant present-day claims. Duke University Press 2009 Memory and Music in Okinawa: The Cultural Politics of War and Peace...

... Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Citizen in Postwar Japan.” Dean Brink is assistant professor of literature at Tamkang University, Taiwan. He is research- ing ideological uses of Japanese poetry...

... in Postwar Japan,” and the intended audi- ence for my own comments have been moving targets. positions 16:3  doi 10.1215/10679847-2008-020 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press positions 16:3  Winter 2008...

...J. Victor Koschmann Duke University Press 2008 Avenell’s “Citizen” J. Victor Koschmann Simon Avenell’s contribution to an intellectual and political history of the “citizen” (shimin) in postwar Japan reopens an issue that has not received...

... opportunities for shaping public space and political culture and in opposition to multiple forms of containment and con- trol. But the question of what and who constitutes the public has remained an issue of heated contention in Japan’s postwar decades...

... an affective counter-history of Japan's postwar experience. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Japan Anpo photography architecture landscape Tange Kenzō Hosoe Eikoh Megalopolis and Wasteland: Peripheral Geographies of Tokyo (1961/1971) Ignacio Adriasola...

... in Postwar Japan . Berkeley : University of California Press . Avenell Simon . 2012 . “ From Fearsome Pollution to Fukushima: Environmental Activism and the Nuclear Blind Spot in Contemporary Japan .” Environmental History 17 , no. 2 : 244 – 76 . Baum Seth . 2015 . “ Japan Should...

...- war citizens’ movements. (Tsurumi’s wartime and immediate postwar writ- ings certainly suggest the need to explore this territory.) Michael Lewis’s 1990 book Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan, for example, uses the term...

... growth in postwar Japan, this article considers the shifting status of the public intellectual by examining the career and writings of critic Et¯o Jun (1932–1999).1 Since he started writing in the late 1950s, Et¯o continuously acted as a central...

... war; this prohibition is at the core of Japan’s inequality among nations. One of the difficulties in thinking about Japan today involves the extent to which the term postwar (sengo) continues to be used to describe Japan from...

... of framing the same question is to ask what happened to the political left wing in postwar Japan: How did the left come to be so thoroughly defeated that people think of Japanese political and economic institutions today as having been created entirely...