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Author_Simon Andrew Avenell
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civic activism
civic groups
civic thought
contemporary japan
democracy
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government reform
historians
industrialized nations
japan
japanese citizens
japanese history
japanese society
local government
modern history
political participation
popular nationalism
postwar era
postwar japan
protests
retrospective
self reliance
shimin mythology
social activists
social cultural history
social movements
Product details
- ISBN 9780520262713
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Making Japanese Citizens" is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940s and 1950s, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960s and 1970s, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970s. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally.
Simon Andrew Avenell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore.
