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Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon

By Andrew Gordon

Japan's catapult to international monetary energy has encouraged many reports through social scientists, yet few have checked out the forty five years of postwar Japan during the lens of historical past. The members to this publication search to supply this kind of view. As they research 3 similar subject matters of postwar historical past, the authors describe an ongoing ancient procedure marked via unforeseen adjustments, equivalent to Japan's impressive financial development, and unanticipated continuities, resembling the patience of conservative rule. A provocative set of interpretative essays by means of eminent students, this ebook will entice someone attracted to the background of twentieth-century Japan and the dilemmas dealing with Japan today.

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It was still a distant second to the United States in overall economic capacity, but every conventional index indicated the gap was closing rapidly. By the mid-1980s the United States had become the world's largest debtor country andjapan the world's great creditor. It was now a financial, not just "economic," superpower. In the closing years of the Showa period the ''spin-on" military applications ofjapan's advanced civilian technologies made it clear that, even without a milita ry- industrial complex, Japan's technological ac­ complishments had made it a potentially significant military actor worldwide.

It was also in 1955 that centralized planning was significantly advanced through creation of the Economic Planning Agency (inJuly) and the issuance (in December) of a Five-Year Plan for Economic Independence. 1 7 By many reckonings the advent of mass consumer culture also dates from essentially this same moment in the mid-1950s. S. use in the Korean War) and buses and taxis (including many for export to Southeast Asia). With MITI's plan as a springboard the "age of the citizen's car" (kokumin jidosha nojidai) commenced with the appearance of the Datsun Bluebird four years later.

Democracy in Contemporary Japan (Sydney: Hale and lremonger, 1986); and Takeshi Ishida and Ellis S. Democracy in Japan (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989). , 32 JOHN \V. DOWER erupted openly. Strains of "victim consciousness" that had always existed across the political spectrum were drawn to the surface. War imagery became fashion­ able on all sides, albeit now in the post-cold-war context of "economic war" among the capitalist powers, especially the United States and Japan. S.

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