Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War by

Description: Post-Fascist Japan by Laura Hein 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 based in the city of Kamakura, where the new political culture was particularly visible. The book argues that these leftist elites, many of whom had been seen as the enemy during the war, 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, 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 people who had an outsized influence on Japans political culture, Heins study is local, national, and transnational. She grounds her discussion using specific personalities, showing their ideas about post-fascism, how they implemented them and how they interacted with the American occupiers. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Laura Hein is Professor of History at Northwestern University, USA. She is the author of Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in 20th Century Japan (2004) and co-editor of Imagination Without Borders: Visual Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility (2010). Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Post-Fascist Political Culture2. Kamakura: The Place3. The Kamakura Akademia and Humanities Education4. Telling Stories in the Museum: The Kamakura Museum of Modern Art5. Urban Administration: Social Science and Democracy6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex Review What Hein provides for us is a nuanced intellectual history of a part of Japan that had and still has a clear sense of its own identity. By presenting national-level trends in the context of local politics, she makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of recent history outside the Tokyo "bubble," even if only down the road and easily within commuting distance. We need to hear more about Japan at the local level. * Journal of Japanese Studies *In this elegantly written study, Hein (Northwestern Univ.) looks at how, after the defeat of Japan in August 1945, Japanese intellectuals and political leaders in the city of Kamakura focused their energies on creating political, cultural, and educational institutions and behavior pathways that would counter the appeal that Fascism had in pre-war Japan and lead to a more democratic, egalitarian, and peaceful society … The lead-off chapter, "Kamakura: The Place," is a model of urban history and deserves a wide audience … Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *Meticulously researched and elegantly written, this fascinating study explores what it means to reconstruct an entirely new postwar civic culture out of the ruins of Japans imperial adventurism--this time, notably based in the storied seaside town of Kamakura, outside of the now-tainted political and cultural capital of Tokyo. Hein captures the heady emotions of an era where self-reflection and institution-building by formerly leftwing Japanese intellectuals supposedly led to increasing levels of humanistic freedom to atone and make amends for a wartime fascist political culture. * Annika A. Culver, Associate Professor of East Asian History, Florida State University, USA *In the wake of Japans defeat in the Pacific War, a wide ranging network of intellectuals based in and around the town of Kamakura shared hopes for new democratic society, and attempted to put those hopes into practice. In rediscovering the wartime experiences and postwar ideals and actions of this network, Post-Fascist Japan casts vital new light on the history of Japans postwar democratization. This fascinating book is not only essential reading for all those with an interest in Japans intellectual history, but also conveys a powerful message about dilemmas of war memory and democracy in Japan today. * Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor of Japanese History, The Australian National University, Australia * Promotional Explores how a group of Japanese intellectuals transformed policies, institutions and public opinion in the postwar period to create a more democratic society in the wake of fascism. Review Quote "What Hein provides for us is a nuanced intellectual history of a part of Japan that had and still has a clear sense of its own identity. By presenting national-level trends in the context of local politics, she makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of recent history outside the Tokyo "bubble," even if only down the road and easily within commuting distance. We need to hear more about Japan at the local level." - Journal of Japanese Studies "In this elegantly written study, Hein (Northwestern Univ.) looks at how, after the defeat of Japan in August 1945, Japanese intellectuals and political leaders in the city of Kamakura focused their energies on creating political, cultural, and educational institutions and behavior pathways that would counter the appeal that Fascism had in pre-war Japan and lead to a more democratic, egalitarian, and peaceful society ... The lead-off chapter, "Kamakura: The Place," is a model of urban history and deserves a wide audience ... Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." - CHOICE Promotional "Headline" Explores how a group of Japanese intellectuals transformed policies, institutions and public opinion in the postwar period to create a more democratic society in the wake of fascism. Feature Analyses important questions about the nature of post-fascism and civil society in postwar Japan while considering the legacies of the wartime era Details ISBN1350025801 Author Laura Hein Year 2018 ISBN-10 1350025801 ISBN-13 9781350025806 Format Hardcover Pages 272 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 10 bw illus Affiliation Northwestern University, USA Media Book Publication Date 2018-02-22 DEWEY 306.20952 Short Title Post-Fascist Japan Language English UK Release Date 2018-02-22 NZ Release Date 2018-02-22 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2018-02-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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