Molding Japanese Minds The State in Everyday Life

Name: Molding Japanese Minds The State in Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9780691001913

ISBN-10: 069100191X

ISBN-13: 9780691001913

Edition: 1998

Authors: Sheldon Garon

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How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? And to care for the elderly within the family? How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest? What roles have women's groups played in Japan's "economic miracle"? What actually unites the Japanese to achieve so many economic and social goals that have eluded other polities? Here Sheldon Garon helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government. To an extent inconceivable to most Westerners, state directives trickle into homes, religious groups, and even into individuals'…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/16/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.13" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Preface


Social Management: An Introduction



State and Society Before 1945



The Evolution of "Japanese-Style" Welfare



Defining Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy



The World's Oldest Debate? Regulating Prostitution and Illicit Sexuality



Integrating Women into Public Life: Women's Groups and the State



Social Management in Postwar Japan



Re-creating the Channels of Moral Suasion



Sexual Politics and the Feminization of Social Management



Managing Spiritual Life and Material Well-being


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Interviews


Index