Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan

by Richard F. Calichman

In the summer of 1942 Japan's leading cultural authorities gathered in Tokyo to discuss the massive cultural, technological, and intellectual changes that had transformed Japan since the Meiji period. They feared that without a sufficient understanding of these developments, the Japanese people would lose their identity to the reckless and rapid process of modernization.

The participants of this symposium hoped to settle the question of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231143966
• ISBN13: 9780231143967
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"