In the late nineteenth century, Japan was the only non-Western country to have successfully faced the challenges of Westernization. At the end of the Meiji Era,
In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to riv
This book is a political and cultural history of the early postwar Japan aiming at exploring how the perception and cultural values of everyday life in the coun
In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches,
Analysing major interwar women's magazines - the literary journal 'Ladies' Review', the popular domestic periodical 'Housewife's Friend', and the politically ra