ABSTRACT
The analyses and literary portraits in this text elucidate the existing realities of Japan's postwar history. They address, in chronological fashion, major social, environmental, and feminist issues and conflicts that have attended to Japan's postwar economic miracle.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|73 pages
New Day—Old Conflict
part 2|70 pages
Paying the Bill: Costs of the “Miraculous” Growth of the 1960s
part 3|27 pages
Resistance and the Rise of New Movements for Social Change in the 1970s
part 4|73 pages
Japan and the Changing International Division of Labor
part 5|54 pages
Restructuring Society for Capitalist “Efficiency” in the International Division of Labor
part 6|49 pages
Tarnished Miracles—Rising Hopes
part |43 pages
Conclusion
