Showa Japan The Post-War Golden Age and Its Troubled Legacy

Name: Showa Japan The Post-War Golden Age and Its Troubled Legacy
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ISBN: 9784805310021

ISBN-10: 4805310022

ISBN-13: 9784805310021

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hans Brinckmann, Ysbrand Rogge

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Japan's Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. The formative age of modern Japan, it was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan's recent history. Today, Showa is a beacon for nostalgia that is memorialized yearly in a national holiday. An era of growth and prosperity, it saw Japan go from an isolated, embattled nation to a peaceful country holding the exalted position of the world's second largest economy. Showa Japan is a clear-sighted exploration of the Showa era as it really was-not only a time of wondrous change, security and growth, but also a time of wild spending and excesses in every…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface: Japan-A Case Apart



A Showa Perspective



Japan's Golden Age



The Real Significance of the Showa Celebrations



Picture Postcard Showa



Urban Vistas, Urban Life



A Showa Phenomenon: the "Salaryman"



Of Brawn and Drudgery: Japan's Manual Workers



Authority Challenged



The Foreign Element



Religions and Traditions



Arts, Crafts, Culture, and Fashion



The Breathless Eighties: From Boom to Bust



Investing the Bubble way



Bubble Excesses



Sex and the Japanese City



The Emergence of Subcultures



The Advent of Mass Travel



The Rise of Culinary Chic



The Bubble Bursts



The Magellan Decade: A Post-Bubble X-Ray



The Morning After



Individualism-Ah, You Mean Selfishness?



The Myth of the Lost Decade



A Question of Identity



Personal Priorities in Life



The Slow Escape from Insularity



Overcoming Showa



New Challenges, Old Medicine



The State of the Nation



What Has Changed



What Hasn't Changed



On Forming Ideas and Opinions



Hidden Agonies



The Patriotism Trap



A Free (or Shackled?) Press



Education for the Future



Japan's Unfinished Business


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Glossary


Index