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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Gerteis is an historian of Modern and Contemporary Japan at SOAS University of London, UK and The University of Tokyo, Japan. His first book, Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan (2009), is an interdisciplinary study of the forgotten history of wage-earning Japanese women who during the 1950s militantly contested the socialist labor movement's revival of many prewar notions of normative gender roles. His second book, Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (forthcoming), examines the forces that shaped the political consciousness of Japanese youth who engaged in political violence during the 1960s and 1970s. It unpacks how notions of class and gender shaped the discourses produced by, and for, young men and women of the 'Sixties Generation'. Dr Gerteis is co-editor of the Bloomsbury book Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (2012) and is Founding Series Editor of the Bloomsbury series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary . He also served as Chief Editor of the interdisciplinary academic journal Japan Forum from 2014 through 2019. Timothy S. George is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Klappentext Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan's significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays that comprise Japan Since 1945 demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance. Examining the historical context to the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar development, the contributors re-engage earlier discourses and introduce new veins of research. Japan Since 1945 provides a much needed update to existing scholarly work on the history of contemporary Japan. It moves beyond the 'lost decade' and 'terrible devastation' frameworks that have thus far defined too much of the discussion, offering a more nuanced picture of the nation's postwar development. Zusammenfassung Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan's significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays that comprise Japan Since 1945 demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance. Examining the historical context to the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar development, the contributors re-engage earlier discourses and introduce new veins of research. Japan Since 1945 provides a much needed update to existing scholarly work on the history of contemporary Japan. It moves beyond the 'lost decade' and 'terrible devastation' frameworks that have thus far defined too much of the discussion, offering a more nuanced picture of the nation's postwar development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Revisiting Postwar Japan, Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George \ Part I: Civic Imaginations \ 1. The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura, Laura E. Hein \ 2. Furusato-zukuri: Saving Home Towns by Reinventing Them, Timothy S. George \ 3. Searching for Furusato History in Kaminoseki, Martin Dusinberre \ Part II: Legacies of War and Occupation \ 4. Dreaming Ryukyu: Shifting and Contesting Identities in Okinawa, David Tobaru Obermiller \ 5. Beyond Black Market: Neighborhood Associations and Food Rationing in Postwar Japan, Katarzyna Cwiertka \ 6. Nurses in Postwar Japan, Sally A. Hastings \ 7. Japan's Other Forgotten Soldiers, Tetsuya Fujiwara \ Part III: State Policy for a Late-Capitalist Society \ 8. The Post-Industrialization of the Developmental State, Lonny E. Carlile \ 9. Reassessing Japan's Big Bang: Twenty Years of Financial Regulatory Reform, Bruce Aronson
