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Showa Japan : the Post-war Golden Age and Its Troubled Legacy.
Japan's Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. The formative age of modern Japan, it was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan's recent history. Today, Showa is a beacon for nostalgia that...
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New York :
Tuttle Pub.,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Preface Japan--A Case Apart; Part One A Showa Perspective; 1 Japan's Golden Age; 2 The Real Significance of the Showa Celebrations; 3 Picture Postcard Showa; 4 Urban Vistas, Urban Life; 5 A Showa Phenomenon: the "Salaryman"; 6 Of Brawn and Drudgery: Japan's Manual Workers; 7 Authority Challenged; 8 The Foreign Element; 9 Religions and Traditions; 10 Arts, Crafts, Culture, and Fashion; Part Two The Breathless Eighties: From Boom to Bust; 11 Investing the Bubble Way; 12 Bubble Excesses; 13 Sex and the Japanese City; 14 The Emergence of Subcultures; 15 The Advent of Mass Travel.
- 16 The Rise of Culinary Chic17 The Bubble Bursts; Part Three The Magellan Decade: A Post-Bubble X-Ray; 18 The Morning After; 19 Individualism--Ah, You Mean Selfishness?; 20 The Myth of the Lost Decade; 21 A Question of Identity; 22 Personal Priorities in Life; 23 The Slow Escape from Insularity; Part Four Overcoming Showa; 24 New Challenges, Old Medicine; 25 The State of the Nation; 26 What Has Changed; 27 What Hasn't Changed; 28 On Forming Ideas and Opinions; 29 Hidden Agonies; 30 The Patriotism Trap; 31 A Free (or Shackled?) Press; 32 Education for the Future; 33 Japan's Unfinished Business.
- AfterwordAcknowledgments; Notes; Glossary; Index.