First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1987. Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945 was an unprecedented event in Japanese history. The shift from the life of hunger to the life of

This book is a political and cultural history of the early postwar Japan aiming at exploring how the perception and cultural values of everyday life in the coun

Highlighting the transformational nature of the early postwar, Jesty deftly contrasts it with the relative stasis, consolidation, and homogenization of the 1960

Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgot