Making Japanese Citizens : Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan [1 ed.] 9780520947672, 9780520262706

Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial ro

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Making Japanese Citizens : Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan [1 ed.]
9780520947672, 9780520262706

Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial ro

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This volume is based on papers from the second in a series of three conferences that deal with the multi-scalar processe

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