Title A Cultural History of Postwar Japan Rethinking Kasutori Society

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (213 p.) Series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Japan Series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Japan Series Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Argument and Aims of the Book -- Sources, Structure, and Methodology -- 1 Japan's Modern/Modernized Subjectivity -- Introduction -- Vanishing Modernity and Japanizing Subjectivity -- Old and New Frameworks in the Scholarship -- When Modern Japan had to Face the Outside World -- Epistemes of Modernity -- Japan's De-Westernized Modernity -- Kokutai in the Shadow of Tennoism -- Japan's Militarism and "Kokutai" The Quest for Modernization From Below ... -- ... And The Mission to Unify the World -- Subjectivity and the Questioning of Western Modernity -- The Alleged Duty of World History -- The Manifest Crisis of Modernity in Japan -- 2 Americanized Japanese? Questioning the Unquestionable -- When Japan Surrendered -- The Postwar International Scenario -- Implications of Strategic Games -- Frames of U.S. Containment in Asia and Japan -- Politics of American-Occupied Japan -- Politicizing Okinawa under U.S. Occupation -- Japan as the "Asian Workshop" -- The Reverse Course and the San Francisco Treaty "Charlie, Turn Around!" -- The Changed/Unchanged Family System -- Questioning Postwar Japan's National Identity -- A Westernized Japan? -- The Trap of the Mainstream Historiography -- De-Historicizing Japan and Decentering American Influence -- 3 To Forget or not Forget? Japan as the Place of Desire -- Introduction -- Yami-Ichi as the Site of Kyodatsu and Shinsei -- Kasutori Japan: Desecrating, Erotic, Obscene -- Moonshine Japan's Boogie-Woogie -- "Kissing Democracy": Outrageous Press, Contentious Flesh -- Embodiment as Subjective Living -- "American Hijiki": Silencing the Unforgettable? 4 Portraits of Decadence in "Moonshine Japan" -- "Decadence" As Episteme of History -- ... And Literature as Cultural Repository -- Decadence or "Daraku"? -- Fall and Rise of a Kasutori Icon -- Mirroring "Daraku" Through Ango's Life -- De-Historicizing History, De-Ideologizing Politics -- A Manifesto for Renaissance -- Epilogue: Could You Call Us Human and Humanist, Please? -- Bibliography -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Civilization -- Western influences. Manners and customs. Politics and government. SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 Japan -- Civilization -- Western influences Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Subject Japan. Genre/Form Electronic books History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000909678 1000909670

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