The Other Japan: Democratic Promise Versus Capitalist Efficiency, 1945 to the Present

by Joe Moore

Overview

The analyses and literary portraits in this text elucidate the existing realities of Japan's postwar history. They address, in chronological fashion, major social, environmental, and feminist issues and conflicts that have attended to Japan's postwar economic miracle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315284835
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Joe Moore

Table of Contents

Introduction I: New Day-Old Conflict 1. Production Control: Workers' Control in Early Post-war Japan 2. The 1960 Miike Coal Mine Dispute: Turning Point for Adversarial Unionism in Japan? II: Paying the Bill: Costs of the Miraculous Growth of the 1960s 3. Sanya: Japan's Internal Colony 4. Shimizu Ikko's Silver Sanctuary (Gin no seiiki): A Japanese Business Novel 5. Japanese Corporate Zen 6. Ishimure Michiko's The Boy Yamanaka Kuhei III: Resistance and the Rise of New Movements for Social Change in the 1970s 7. The Birth of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1970s Mutolchiyo IV: Japan and the Changing International Division of Labor 8. Japanese Agriculture Today: The Roots of Decay 9. Japanese Investment in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia: A Decade of JASEAN V: Restructuring Society for Capitalist Efficiency in the International Division of Labor 10. Nuclear Power Plant Gypsies in High-Tech Society 11. Dilemmas and Accommodations of Married Japanese Women in White-Collar Employment 12. The Problem of Foreign Workers in Contemporary Japan VI: Tarnished Miracles--Rising Hopes 13. Militarism, Colonialism, and the Trafficking of Women: Comfort Women Forced into Sexual Labor for Japanese Soldiers 14. Mr. Tomino Goes to City Hall: Grass-Roots Democracy in Zushi City, Japan 15. Five Poems (1974-1991) by Hiroshima Poet Kurihara Sadako. Conclusion 16. Democracy and Capitalism in Post-war Japan