156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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Radical changes in the design of housing in post-war Japan had numerous effects on the Japanese people. Public policy toward housing provision and the effects of escalating land prices in Tokyo and a few other very large cities in the country from the mid- to late 1970s onward are examined, but it is dwellings themselves and the slow but steady shift from a floor-sitting to a chair-sitting housing... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Experiencing the Housing Crisis, Ky?ko Sasaki; Chapter 3 Housing Policy in Early Postwar Japan; Chapter 4 Toward a Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 5 Selling the Home Ownership Dream; Chapter 6 Housing in Greater Tokyo; Chapter 7 Japanese Housing at Century’s End;
Biography
Ann Waswo is Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford, a member of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, and a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
