Broadcasting Politics in Japan: African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit

by Ellis S. Krauss

The aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep crisis; virtually every major source of state legitimacy was seriously damaged or wholly remade by the postwar occupation. Between 1960 and 1990, however, these institutions renewed their strength, taking on legitimacy that erased virtually all traces of their postwar instability.How did this transformation come about? This is the question Ellis S. Krauss...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801437482
• ISBN13: 9780801437489
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher