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Journal articles on the topic "Postwar reconstruction Japan"

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notoji, masako. "The Gendered Reconstruction of Postwar Japan." Diplomatic History 33, no. 4 (September 2009): 759–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00810.x.

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Itagaki, Akira. "OPPOSITION TO CAR IMPORTS IN POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION JAPAN." Keiei Shigaku (Japan Business History Review) 38, no. 3 (2003): 48–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5029/bhsj.38.3_48.

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Kingsberg, Miriam. "Methamphetamine Solution: Drugs and the Reconstruction of Nation in Postwar Japan." Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 1 (February 2013): 141–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911812001787.

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This article introduces the 1952–56hiroponcrisis, Japan's sole major domestic experience with illegal drugs, and the world's first methamphetamine “epidemic.” In the early postwar years,hiroponaddiction came to symbolize the dependent, traumatized state of a defeated Japan. This ideological significance made the eradication ofhiropona leading public issue, mobilizing the Japanese government, medical establishment, and social actors such as educators, parents, neighborhood associations, the media, and others. The process of eliminating methamphetamine restored public confidence and agency, and created a new identity for Japan as a cosmopolitan, independent nation. Unlike drugs in other contexts,hiroponwas not embedded in the postwar political economy or culture, making possible its swift suppression. However, resolution of the methamphetamine crisis also sowed the seeds of its recrudescence in the 1970s. The ongoing “second stimulants epidemic,” reflecting consumption patterns typical of developed nations, has proven resistant to solution.

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Caprio, Mark E. "American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction: Comparing Japan and Iraq." Journal of Cold War Studies 16, no. 4 (October 2014): 264–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws_r_00496.

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Steele, M. William. "The Making of a Bicycle Nation." Transfers 2, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 70–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2012.020206.

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Japan is one of the great bicycle nations of the world, ranking alongside the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark in terms of per capita bicycle ownership and use. This article reviews the history and characteristics of Japan as a bicycle nation. It examines the emergence of a distinctive bicycle culture that offered personal mobility to ordinary people in prewar Japan and traces the contribution of the bicycle to postwar Japan's social and economic development. It reviews postwar bicycle history in: the period of reconstruction and recovery (1945-1956); the period of high economic growth (1957-1973); the period of rapid motorization (1974-1991); and the period of raised environmental consciousness (1992-present). The conclusion seeks to offer reasons for the persistence of Japan's vibrant and pervasive bicycle culture.

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Yaguchi, Yujin. "Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans." Pacific Historical Review 83, no. 2 (November 2012): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2014.83.2.333.

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This article investigates the relationship between Asian American and modern Japanese history by analyzing the image of Japanese Americans in postwar Japan. Based on a book of photographs featuring Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i published in 1956, it analyzes how their image was appropriated and redefined in Japan to promote as well as reinforce the nation’s political and cultural alliance with the United States. The photographs showed the successful acculturation of Japanese in Hawai‘i to the larger American society and urged the Japanese audience to see that their nation’s postwar reconstruction would come through the power and protection of the United States. Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i served as a lens through which the Japanese in Japan could imagine their position under American hegemony in the age of Cold War.

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Garner, Karen. "Global Feminism and Postwar Reconstruction: The World YWCA Visitation to Occupied Japan, 1947." Journal of World History 15, no. 2 (2004): 191–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2004.0019.

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Gottfried, Heidi, and David Fasenfest. "Understanding the Trajectory of Japanese Capitalism." Critical Sociology 47, no. 1 (August 3, 2020): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920520944465.

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How can we understand the trajectory of Japanese capitalism? This Afterword situates Japan on a broad canvas stretching across both the region and the globe. East Asia’s regional dynamics figure prominently, shaping the trajectory of Japanese capitalism not only in the formative Age of Empire and postwar reconstruction, but also in the emergent Asian Century. An historical examination of geo-politics highlights imperial entanglements and both the routes and the roots of capitalist development in Japan. This discussion begins by setting the stage of post-World War II Japan, elaborating on the reproductive bargain that characterizes Japan’s political economy, investigating the importance of national identity as it informs who can participate in Japan’s economy, revealing the underbelly of contemporary Japan, discussing forces for change, and revisiting the methodological approach used to understand Japanese capitalism.

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Tozer, Luke. "The Japanese House." Architectural Research Quarterly 21, no. 3 (September 2017): 203–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135913551700032x.

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Western fascination with Japan and Japanese design is long established. The popularity of the recent exhibition The Japanese House: Architecture and Life After 1945 at London's Barbican illustrates that this fascination remains. This ‘blockbuster’ review of postwar domestic Japanese Architecture, supported by The Japan Foundation and previously hosted at MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, responds to an enormous challenge: to try to account for the range and diversity of architectural approaches to domestic design within the broader contexts of traditional Japanese architecture and national life after 1945.The seven decades covered in the exhibition span postwar reconstruction, rapid economic expansion, bubble-era boom and bust, and deflationary stagnation, brought up to the present day. Material is organised ‘genealogically’ rather than chronologically, drawing together certain threads and traditions. It makes connections across time periods to suggest how the design of the Japanese house has dealt with sociological changes over this period, from the fracturing of the nuclear family and an increase in single-person households to an ageing population.

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YAMAZUMI, Katsuhiro. "Inexpressible Memories and Learning for Reconstruction : Between the Major Earthquake Disasters in Postwar in Japan." Educational Studies in Japan 7 (2013): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.7571/esjkyoiku.7.21.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Postwar reconstruction Japan"

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Griffiths, Owen. "The reconstruction of self and society in early postwar Japan 1945-1949." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48640.pdf.

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Shelton, Joel A. "Female labor in the postwar Japanese economy a geographic perspective /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155328128.

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Yi, Yongfei. "Building a Literary Bridge and Reconstructing Culture in Postwar Japan: Takeda Taijun and His Chūgoku Mono (China-related Writings)." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525448084944.

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Yamamoto, Hammering Klaus Kuraudo. "Propriety, Shame, and the State in Post-Fukushima Japan." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8CJ8DFS.

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This dissertation tracks the effects of state recognition across a series of vanishing and emerging social worlds in post-Fukushima Japan. Based upon two years of fieldwork, the dissertation focuses on ethnographic sites at which the failure of state subjectivization activates both a reinvigoration of state discourse, and the formation of counter-discourses within the temporality of Japan’s endless “postwar” (sengo). In so doing, the dissertation seeks to disclose the social violence and iteration of shame as it is mobilized by the state to produce an obedient subject – willing to die for the nation in war – and as the failure to conform precipitates alternate socialities that may be either opposed to or complicit with state interests. The ethnographic sites of which I write concentrate on: the compulsory enactment of propriety in public school ceremonies, and the refusal by teachers to stand for, bow to the “national flag” (kokki), and sing the “national anthem” (kokka), the self-same imperial symbols under which Japan conducted World War II; a group of Okinawan construction workers in the old day laborer district of Tokyo, Sanya; the stigmatized “radical” (kageki) leftist student organization, the Zengakuren; the “internet right-wing” (netto uyoku) group, the Zaittokai, whose street protests are performed live before a camera; and “Fukushima,” where the charge of guilt has short-circuited memories of the Japanese state sacrificing its citizens during World War II. As a foil for the remaining ethnographic sites, the obviousness of giving “respect” (sonchō) to state symbols in public school ceremonies discloses the formation of subjects in a constitutive misrecognition that eliminates – or kills – difference in the enactment of social totality. A veritable stain on which the Japanese state drive to war was dependent, the singular figure of the sitting teacher formed part and parcel of what rightist politicians referred to as the “negative legacy” (fu no rekishi) of World War II. S/he constituted the object of an overcoming that – alongside the Okinawan construction worker, the “radical” (kageki) leftist, the “resident foreigner” (zainichi) as object of Zaittokai hate speech, and “Fukushima” – at once marked the ground of intensification and failure of state discourse. For the graduation ceremony of March, 2012, the official number of teachers who refused to stand and sing fell to “1” in Tokyo, where the state employs 63,000 teachers. With neither family ties, romantic involvements, nor social recognition that would confirm their masculinity, the vanishing day laborers of Sanya made all the more insistent reference to the trope of otoko or ‘man.’ Closely articulated with the mobster world of the yakuza with which many workers had connections, the repetition of masculinity in work, gambling, and fighting constituted a discourse that repulsed the shaming gaze of general society. Thus, the excessive life-style of the otoko was located at the constitutive margins of the social bond of propriety, where he also provided a dying reserve army of labor that could be mobilized to undertake the most undesirable tasks, such as work at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Echoing the death of Sanya, the Zengakuren numbered in the tens of thousands in the 1960s and 1970s, but had dwindled to under 100 active members in 2012. While the anti-war “strike” (sutoraiki) constituted the apotheosis of the Zengakuren discourse, their espousal and shameless mandate of “violent” (bōryoku) revolution subverted the origins of the Zengakuren into a prohibitive discourse which replicated the form of state rhetoric, and demanded the eradication of the Stalinist from within their own ranks. No less shameless than the Zengakuren, the emergent hate speech of the “internet right-wing” (netto uyoku) iterated state discourse among the working poor. Having grown from 500 to 10,000 members within only four years, the Zaittokai’s notorious hate speech aspired to the instantaneous effect of “killing” (korosu) another legacy of World War II: the “resident foreigner” (zainichi). Yet, replicating online forms of writing, the iterability of their performative triggered repetition, and in a shamelessness specific to cyberspace – in which the reciprocity of the gaze and shame were lacking – the Zaittokai directed their paranoid speech at the state, whose representatives were said to be controlled by zainichi. Lastly, “Fukushima” marked the apogee of the effectivity and failures of the state in containing both the excesses of capitalism, and the “negative legacy” (fu no rekishi) of World War II, the memories of which were short-circuited by radioactive outpour.

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Books on the topic "Postwar reconstruction Japan"

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American foreign policy and postwar reconstruction: Comparing Japan and Iraq. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England]: Routledge, 2010.

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Phelps, James R. What happened to the Iraqi police?: Applying lessons in police democratization successes in West Germany and Japan. Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.

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Phelps, James R. What happened to the Iraqi police?: Applying lessons in police democratization successes in West Germany and Japan. Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.

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What happened to the Iraqi police?: Applying lessons in police democratization successes in West Germany and Japan. Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.

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Beachheads: War, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.

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Civic engagement in postwar Japan: The revival of a defeated society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Geopolitics and trajectories of development: The cases of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and Puerto Rico. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2010.

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Jennings, Ray Salvatore. The road ahead: Lessons in nation building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for postwar Iraq. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2003.

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Jennings, Ray Salvatore. The road ahead: Lessons in nation building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for postwar Iraq. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2003.

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Zeitlin, Jonathan. Americanization and its limits: Reworking US technology and management in postwar Europe and Japan. San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Postwar reconstruction Japan"

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Ono, Hiroshi. "Housing Reconstruction in War-Damaged Cities: The Creation and Distribution of Living Spaces in the Late 1940s Under Postwar Governmental Controls." In Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan, 35–66. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4097-9_2.

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Levine, Solomon B. "The Transformation of Industrial Relations in Postwar Japan." In Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry, 21–50. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24897-1_2.

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White, Merry Isaacs. "Families in Postwar Japan: Democracy and Reconstruction." In Perfectly JapaneseMaking Families in an Era of Upheaval, 63–96. University of California Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520217546.003.0004.

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Heer, Paul J. "Japan." In Mr. X and the Pacific, 50–88. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501711145.003.0004.

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This chapter chronicles Kennan’s pivotal and successful role in redirecting US policy toward Japan during 1947-48. Kennan largely engineered the “reverse course” in US occupation policy away from a postwar punitive approach and toward economic reconstruction and stabilization, which was aimed at making Japan the centerpiece of the US security posture in East Asia. This required Kennan to personally confront occupation commander General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo to secure his support for the shift in policy. The chapter discusses the subsequent policy deliberations that ultimately approved the “reverse course,” and assesses the division of labor between Kennan and Undersecretary of the Army William Draper in effecting the policy change.

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Sturmey, S. G. "War and Reconstruction." In British Shipping and World Competition. Liverpool University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780986497322.003.0003.

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This chapter presents the effects of the First World War on the future of the British shipping industry. It examines shipping tonnage statistics to demonstrates Britain’s loss of three million tons and in contrast, the worldwide tonnage increase of seven million tons. It is presented in two halves: the first provides overviews of the tonnage profit between 1914 and 1920 in America, Japan, France, and Italy, and the tonnage of neutral countries and British enemies; detailed shipping losses and the financial effects on British shipping; plus tramp and liner statistics, tax rates, freight rates, the lack of equalisation schemes, and the loss of entrepôt trade. The second half examines the British postwar reconstruction effort, and calculates the value of the four major sources of tonnage available: British ships built during the war; ceded German ships; purchases from foreign owners; and new builds. It concludes that Britain sought to return to a prewar perceived sense of normalcy in shipping, despite irrevocable changes in worldwide shipping such as the rise of the American fleet.

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Yaguchi, Yujin. "Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans." In Pacific America. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824855765.003.0007.

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This chapter investigates the relationship between Asian American and modern Japanese history by analyzing the image of Japanese Americans in postwar Japan. Based on a book of photographs featuring Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i published in 1956, it analyzes how their image was appropriated and redefined in Japan to promote as well as reinforce the nation’s political and cultural alliance with the United States. The photographs showed the successful acculturation of Japanese in Hawai‘i to the larger American society and urged the Japanese audience to see that their nation’s postwar reconstruction would come through the power and protection of the United States. Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i served as a lens through which the Japanese in Japan could imagine their position under American hegemony in the age of Cold War.

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Levidis, Andrew. "Politics in a Fallen Empire: Kishi Nobusuke and the Making of the Conservative Hegemony in Japan." In In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire, 161–84. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528288.003.0008.

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The creation of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in November 1955 remains one of the most significant moments in modern Japanese political history. The political stability inaugurated in 1955, followed by more than seventy years of unbroken conservative government, have inured us to the striking persistence and durability of conservative ideas, institutions, and men across the political divide of 1945. This chapter examines Kishi Nobusuke’s role in the reconstruction of political order in 1955 and the vehicle of conservative hegemony – the Liberal Democratic party. In so doing it recasts the so-called 1955 system in the longue durée of Japanese political history. As post-imperial elites sought to restore familiar forms of government, their efforts intertwined with the memory of political upheaval between world wars. Layered into conservative efforts to reconceptualize their politics and organize postwar society in the 1950s were the ingrained traditions of 1930s and 1940s– anti-communism, national cohesion, mass mobilization, national harmony - which proved surprisingly translatable to notions of democracy, modernization, and Cold War state-building.

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