Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity

by Simon Avenell

War, defeat, and the collapse of empire in 1945 touched every aspect of postwar Japanese society, profoundly shaping how the Japanese would reconstruct national identity and reengage with the peoples of Asia. While "America" offered a vision of re-genesis after cataclysmic ruin, "Asia" exposed the traumata of perpetration and the torment of ethnic responsibility. Obscured in the shadows of a resurgent postwar Japan lurked a postimperial specter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674270975
• ISBN13: 9780674270978
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"