Inventing Japan: The Making of a Postwar Civilization

by William Chapman and William Chapman

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0139429212
• ISBN13: 9780139429217
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

"It cannot be helped."

Inventing Japan is a great book about postwar Japan dealing with everything from the labor movements, the Koran War, the middle-class, the zaibatsu, the Cold War and American policy in Asia. The author brings together information and makes points with such ease that you can't help but say, "I knew that." For example-"What survived from MacArthur's tenure in Tokyo was what the Japanese found acceptable, and in this respect the postwar reformation was somewhat similar to the Meiji Restoration."The book is full of answers to questions I had about postwar Japan. Is greatly detailed but not overwhelming. I'm happy I found it.