Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-13-4682-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: New Directions in East Asian History

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 of student and zainichi Korean activism and their interactions with the Japanese Communist Party. This book is a key read for scholars in the field of Japanese history, social movements and postcolonial studies, as well as the history of student radicalism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hasegawa, Kenji

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. From Shinjinkai to Zengakuren: Petit Bourgeois Students and the Postwar Revolution, 1945–1950.- 3. ‘Impressionable Students and Excitable Koreans’: Internal Factors in the JCP’s Anti-American Radicalization, 1945–1952.- 4. Guerilla Warfare in Postwar Japan: The Ogochi sanson kosakutai, 1950–1952.- 5. Waging ‘Peace’ in Post-Occupation Japan: The Uchinada Base Protests of 1953.- 6. Postwar Departures and Reversions in Mid-1950s Japan: Chongryon, Okinawa, and ‘Bloody Sunagawa’.

Über Autor(innen)

Kenji Hasegawa is an Associate Professor at Yokohama National University, Japan. He received his undergraduate degree from Keio University and doctoral degree in history from Stanford University. His research interest lies in modern history and prior publications include Rediscovering America: Japanese Perspectives on the American Century, co-editedwith Peter Duus in 2011.