Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan

by Kenji Hasegawa

Book Overview

This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s influenced the nation's embrace of the idea that 'the postwar' had ended. Attentive to the shifting spatial and temporal boundaries of 'postwar Japan, ' it elucidates previously neglected histories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811317763
• ISBN13: 9789811317767
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"