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Post-Fascist Japan : political culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
- Title
- Post-Fascist Japan : political culture in Kamakura after the Second World War / Laura Hein.
- Author
- Hein, Laura Elizabeth
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
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- Description
- xi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more equitable, democratic and peaceful society. Post-Fascist Japan explores this phenomenon, focusing on a group of highly educated Japanese - humanists, historians and social scientists -- based in the former capital and coastal city of Kamakura, where the new political culture was particularly visible. Many of these leftist elites had been seen as 'the enemy' during the war, making this project of domestic repair deeply personal for them. The book argues that they saw the problem as one of fascism, an ideology that had succeeded because it had addressed real problems. They turned their efforts to overtly political-legal systems but also to ostensibly non-political and community institutions such as universities, art museums, and local tourism and environmental policies, aiming not only for reconciliation over the past but also to reduce the anxieties that had drawn so many towards fascism. By focusing on a particular group of people in a particular place who had an outsized influence on Japan's political culture, Hein's study is both local and national. She grounds her theoretical discussion by using specific personalities, showing their ideas about 'post-fascism', how they implemented them and how they interacted with the American Occupiers. This is a unique, engaging and important study which will be extremely valuable for students and scholars of 20th-century Japanese intellectual, political and social history"--
- Series Statement
- SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan
- Uniform Title
- SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : post-fascist political culture -- Kamakura : the place -- The Kamakura akademia and humanities education -- Telling stories in the museum : the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art -- Urban administration : social science and democracy.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3173
- ISBN
- 9781350025806
- 1350025801
- LCCN
- 2017043750
- OCLC
- 982501095
- Author
- Hein, Laura Elizabeth, author.
- Title
- Post-Fascist Japan : political culture in Kamakura after the Second World War / Laura Hein.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- SOAS studies in modern and contemporary JapanSOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Hein, Laura Elizabeth. Post-Fascist Japan. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781350025790 (DLC) 2018015807
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3173