Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan

By Wesley Sasaki-Uemura

Book Overview

Focuses on the significance of the US-Japan Security Treaty protests on the citizens' drive to transform Japanese society rather than on international diplomacy. It shows that the movement against the treaty comprised diverse, at times conflicting, groups of politically conscious actors attempting to reshape the body politic

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824393
• ISBN13: 9780824824396
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.3"