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Organizing the Spontaneous by Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan
In 1960 millions of Japanese citizens took to the streets for months of protest against the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo) and its forcible ratification by the Kishi government. In the decades that followed, the Anpo era citizens' movements exerted a major influence on the organization and political philosophies of the anti-Vietnam War effort, local residents' environmental movements, alternative lifestyle groups, and consumer movements. "Organizing the Spontaneous" focuses on the significance of the Anpo protests on the citizens' drive to transform Japanese society rather than on international diplomacy. It shows that the movement against Anpo comprised diverse, at times conflicting, groups of politically conscious actors attempting to reshape the body politic. |
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| Author(s) : Wesley Sasaki-Uemura | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0824824393 | ISBN-13 : 9780824824396 |
| RRP : £12.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 31/05/2001
Publisher : University of Hawai'i Press
Page Length : 264mm
Page Size : 229mm