Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan,

by David E. Apter and Nagayo Sawa

Book Overview

This book is simultaneously a story of a troubled people and an analysis of protest, violence, and challenge to the state authority. The setting is Japan and the instance is the controversial building of the Tokyo International Airport. Apter recreates the struggle of familiar and intimate groups--small farmers, policemen, bureaucrats, radicals--engaged in extra-institutional pretest against the state. Global lessons emerge from this cross-cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009207
• ISBN13: 9780674009202
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.