Organizing the Spontaneous

Citizens Protest in Postwar Japan

Author: Wesley Makoto Sasaki-Uemura
ISBN: 9780824824396

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

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publish Date: 2001-01

Subjects: History / Asia / Japan, History / Social History, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Science / History & Theory, Political Science / International Relations / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Asia (ASIA))