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Informationen zum Autor Laura Hein, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History at Northwestern University, is a specialist on twentieth-century Japan in its international context. Klappentext A major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and trans-regional entanglements. Leading international scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that provide an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c.1868 to the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung A major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and trans-regional entanglements. Leading international scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that provide an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c.1868 to the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: placing modern Japanese history in the twenty-first century Laura Hein; Part I. Political sovereignty: centers and margins: 1. The transformative politics of the Meiji revolutions Eiko Maruko Siniawer; 2. Japan and its margins: Okinawa, Hokkaido, Korea, Taiwan from the Meiji to the postwar period Jun Uchida, Asano Toyomi and Asano section trans. Yu Conrad Hirano; 3. The Asia-Pacific War Yuki Tanaka; 4. Japan's postwar subordination to the United States and its structure of dual authority Koseki Sh¿ichi and Trans. Alexandra De Leon; 5. The politics of citizenship in postwar Japan: Korean identity, and immigrant rights Erin Aeran Chung; 6. The struggle to protect individual rights in postwar Japan: seven decades of progress Lawrence Repeta; 7. Japan's decline: the Heisei Era (1989-2019) in world history Yoshimi Shunya and Trans. John Person; Part II. Environment, economy, and technology: 8. Japan: the arc of industrialization Mark Metzler; 9. Japan's agriculture, the Empire, and postwar reconstruction Hiromi Mizuno; 10. Building Japan's oil empire Brett L. Walker; 11. Japan's transwar political economy Andrew Gordon; 12. The Japanese economy: shifts in eras 1980-2000 Edward J. Lincoln; Part II. Social practices and cultures in modern Japan: 13. From status to gender in Meiji Japan Marnie S. Anderson; 14. The modern Japanese metropolis, 1868-1970 Jordan Sand; 15. Modern Japan's regional cultures Tessa Morris-Suzuki; 16. Social experiences of war and occupation in twentieth-century Japan Masuda Hajimu; 17. Locating social movements in Japan's long twentieth century Franziska Seraphim; 18. Burakumin and human rights Ian Neary; 19. Japanese mass media Tsuchiya Reiko and Trans. Michele M. Mason; 20. Perceiving Japan: Japonismes east and west, 1860s-1960s Christopher Reed; 21. Popular culture in modern Japan Michele M. Mason; 22. Modern art in Japan and transnational exchange Asato Ikeda; 23. A history of mentalities in modern Japan: premonitions of anxiety in economic prosperity in the early 1970s Narita Ry¿ichi and Mark Pendleton....
