Postwar Japan : Growth, Security, and Uncertainty Since 1945 9781442279759, 9781442279735

Japanese security, economic, institutional, and developmental policies have undergone a remarkable evolution in the 70 y

159 47 1MB

English Pages 240 Year 2017

Postwar Japan : Growth, Security, and Uncertainty Since 1945
9781442279759, 9781442279735

Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth.

140 26 1MB Read more

347 71 2MB Read more

Taking on the myth of France’s creative exhaustion following World War II, this collection of essays brings together an

318 61 30MB Read more

What are people’s life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to und

163 112 5MB Read more

Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese defin

187 6 34MB Read more

817 109 13MB Read more

143 85 155MB Read more

Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the

222 24 28MB Read more

Waste is an elegant history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of

311 50 10MB Read more

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most e

333 56 8MB Read more