Making Japanese citizens
Subtitle: civil society and the mythology of the shimin in postwar Japan
By: Simon Andrew Avenell
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780520262706; 9780520262713
Subjects: Politics and government; Civil society; Political activists; Citizenship
Description: This title is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's post-war period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the shimin : the dark energy of the people; title: Mass society, anpo, and the birth of the shimin; title: Beheiren and the Asian Shimin : the fate of conscientious civic activism; title: Residents into citizens : the fate of pragmatic civic activism; title: Shimin, new civic movements, and the politics of proposal; title: The shimin idea and civil society.