1st Edition
History of Contemporary Japan since World War II
Edited By Edward R. Beauchamp
Copyright 1999
374 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
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The best scholarship on the development of contemporary Japan This collection presents well over 100 scholarly articles on modern Japanese society, written by leading scholars in the field. These selections have been drawn from the most distinguished scholarly journals as well as from journals that are less well known among specialists; and the articles represent the best and most important... Read more
Volume Introduction, Orientalism and the Study of Japan, The People in History: Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography, Toward a History of Twentieth-Century Japan, The Useful War, Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation, Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little-Known Near Disasters, and Modern Memory, The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches: Japanese and American Perspectives of the A-Bomb Decision, 1945-1995, Reflections on the Occupation of Japan, American Democratization Policy for Occupied Japan: Correcting the Revisionist Version, A Rejoinder, The Japanese Constitution: Child of the Cold War, U.S. Policy in Post-War Japan: The Retreat from Liberalism, The Debate on Subjectivity in Postwar Japan: Foundations of Modernism as a Political Critique, Party Politics and the Japanese Labor Movement: Rengo's New Political Force, The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan, Japan: The End of One-Party Dominance, The Unraveling of Japan Inc.: Multinationals as Agents of Change, Japan's Non-Revolution, Japan's Diet Resolution on World War Two: Keeping History at Bay, A Journalist's Perspective on Postwar Japan, Acknowledgments
Biography
Edward R. Beauchamp
