Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation

by Christopher Gerteis

In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan--left-wing radicals and right-wing activists--attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that socially constructed aspects of class and gender preconfigured the forms of political rhetoric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501756311
• ISBN13: 9781501756313
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up