Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan

In Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti examines Japan under its American occupation following World War II and focuses upon the conflicting visions of its political parties in their struggles for a democratic and peaceful "Japanese Japan."

List of contents

Chapter One: The Dilemma of Postwar Japan: A "Washington-Made" or a "Homemade" State?
Part One: Background Data for Discussing Occupied Japan's Visions
Chapter Two: American Inconsistency
Chapter Three: Modern Imperial Japan's Pro-Democratic Legacies
Chapter Four: The Main Parties of Occupied Japan
Part Two: Dynamism of Visions (with Alon Lewkowitz)
Chapter Five: Ratifying a "Dictated" Constitution
Chapter Six: "To Rearm or Not to Rearm?" That is the Question...
Chapter Seven: Adopting an "American Peace"
Epilogue
Chapter Eight: Japanized Visions of Democracy and Peace

About the author

Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti heads the Berl Katznelson Chair for the Study of the Labor Movement and is senior lecturer in the Social Science and Civics Department at Beit-Berl College, research fellow at the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and chair of the Israeli Association for Japanese Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Galanti Sigal Ben-Rafael, Galanti Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793622310
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-231-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Japan, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, International Relations, Asian History