Book contents
- The New Cambridge History of Japan
- The New Cambridge History of Japan
- The New Cambridge History of Japan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume III
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I Political Sovereignty
- Part II Environment, Economy, and Technology
- Part III Social Practices and Cultures in Modern Japan
- 13 From Status to Gender in Meiji Japan
- 14 The Modern Japanese Metropolis, 1868–1970
- 15 Modern Japan’s Regional Cultures
- 16 Social Experiences of War and Occupation in Twentieth-Century Japan
- 17 Locating Social Movements in Japan’s Long Twentieth Century
- 18 Burakumin and Human Rights
- 19 Japanese Mass Media
- 20 Perceiving Japan
- 21 Popular Culture in Modern Japan
- 22 Modern Art in Japan and Transnational Exchange
- 23 A History of Mentalities in Modern Japan
- Index
- References
23 - A History of Mentalities in Modern Japan
Premonitions of Anxiety in Economic Prosperity in the Early 1970s
from Part III - Social Practices and Cultures in Modern Japan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2023
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Book contents
- The New Cambridge History of Japan
- The New Cambridge History of Japan
- The New Cambridge History of Japan
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume III
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I Political Sovereignty
- Part II Environment, Economy, and Technology
- Part III Social Practices and Cultures in Modern Japan
- 13 From Status to Gender in Meiji Japan
- 14 The Modern Japanese Metropolis, 1868–1970
- 15 Modern Japan’s Regional Cultures
- 16 Social Experiences of War and Occupation in Twentieth-Century Japan
- 17 Locating Social Movements in Japan’s Long Twentieth Century
- 18 Burakumin and Human Rights
- 19 Japanese Mass Media
- 20 Perceiving Japan
- 21 Popular Culture in Modern Japan
- 22 Modern Art in Japan and Transnational Exchange
- 23 A History of Mentalities in Modern Japan
- Index
- References
Summary
The twenty-four accessible and thought-provoking essays in this volume present innovative new scholarship on Japan’s modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, it highlights Japan’s distinctiveness as an extraordinarily fast-changing place. Indeed, Japan provides a ringside seat to all the big trends of modern history. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, to wage modern war on a vast scale, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens. Because the Japanese so determinedly acted to reshape global hierarchies, their modern history was incredibly destabilizing for the world. This intense dynamism has powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan’s shores. Put simply, Japan has packed a lot of history into less than two centuries.
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