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English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

Politics and Pedagogy

By: Mayumi Ohara,John Buchanan

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English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

Politics and Pedagogy

By: Mayumi Ohara,John Buchanan

In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged, who were school students at the time of the Occupation and who experienced first-hand this immense cultural change. The book considers the nature of the changing outlook, including democratization, the new role for the Japanese Emperor and all this represented for the place of tradition in Japanese life and the growing emphasis on individualism away from collectivism. It discusses the changing system of education itself, including new structures and new textbooks, and relates the feelings of the participants as they came to terms with defeat and the language and culture of the former enemy. Overall, the book provides a fascinating insight into a key period of Japanese history.

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Routledge

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1351654489

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9781351654487

Tokyo New City Guide

By: Mayumi Yoshida Barakan,Judith Connor Greer

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Tokyo New City Guide

By: Mayumi Yoshida Barakan,Judith Connor Greer

The Tokyo New City Guide goes far beyond the well-worn tourist itineraries and deep into the complex, highly contrasted heart of one of the world's largest and most exciting cities. This lively, up-to-the-minute Japan travel guide covers modern Tokyo like no other. Here's where you will find the ideal balance between the still-extant traditional Japan with its temples, way of life, arts and crafts, kimono, festivals, customs and cuisine and the crowded futuristic technopolis of electronics, high fashion, contemporary art and architecture, and gastronomic experiences from the four corners of the globe. Bewildering at times, the coexistence of such contrasts is precisely what makes Tokyo tick. More than just a perfunctory Tokyo guide, this is a handbook for life in contemporary Tokyo. The style is informative, absorbing and witty and, where due, refreshingly frank and critical. Bursting at the seams with information, it is not only invaluable for the short term visitor or the newcomer, but likely to send even the most jaded long-term residents off to explore some new horizons of their many-faceted adopted home.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462904238

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9781462904235

English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

Politics and Pedagogy

By: Mayumi Ohara,John Buchanan

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Politics and Pedagogy

By: Mayumi Ohara,John Buchanan

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English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

Tokyo New City Guide

Tokyo New City Guide

English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation

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