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Borderline Japan

Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Borderline Japan

Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

This book shows how the Cold War played a decisive role in shaping Japan's migration controls, examining the origins of migration policy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521864607

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9780521864602

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Despite East Asia's economic growth, ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region. Unhappy legacies of Japan's military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region's governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past, and focusing particularly on popular culture and grassroots action, East Asia beyond the History Wars explores these East Asian approaches to historical reconciliation.

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226

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Routledge

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0415637457

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9780415637459

Japan's Living Politics

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Japan's Living Politics

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.

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399

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Cambridge University Press

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1108804993

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9781108804998

The Technological Transformation of Japan

From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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The Technological Transformation of Japan

From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan.

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320

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Cambridge University Press

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0521424925

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9780521424929

Re-inventing Japan

Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Re-inventing Japan

Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.

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256

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Routledge

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1317461150

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9781317461159

Japanese Capitalism Since 1945

Critical Perspectives

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Seiyama Takuro

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Japanese Capitalism Since 1945

Critical Perspectives

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Seiyama Takuro

This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the five essays - on economic policy, agriculture, big business, labour relations, and foreign trade and investment - is written by a specialist in the field. The introduction places the essays in the wider context of contrasting theories of Japanese economic development. While such writings constitute an important part of the economic literature in Japan, virtually none of the great body of Marxian writing on Japanese capitalism has heretofore been available in English.

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Routledge

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1315491834

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9781315491837

Exodus to North Korea

Shadows from Japan's Cold War

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Exodus to North Korea

Shadows from Japan's Cold War

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the scheme was actually the result of political intrigues involving the governments of Japan, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The great majority of the Koreans who journeyed to North Korea in fact originated from the southern part of the Korean peninsula, and many had lived all their lives in Japan. Though most left willingly, persuaded by propaganda that a bright new life awaited them in North Korea, the author draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the covert pressures used to hasten the departure of this unwelcome ethnic minority. For most, their new home proved a place of poverty and hardship; for thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also casts new light on the politics of the Cold War and on present-day tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742579387

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9780742579385

History of Japanese Economic Thought

By: Tessa Morris Suzuki

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History of Japanese Economic Thought

By: Tessa Morris Suzuki

Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already developed, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a variety of interesting approaches to issues such as the causes of inflation, the value of trade, and the role of the state in economic activity. Tessa Morris-Suzuki provides the first comprehensive English language survey of the development of economic thought in Japan. She considers how the study of neo-classical and Keynesian economics was given new impetus by Japan's 'economic miracle' while Marxist thought, particularly well established in Japan, was developing along lines that are only now beginning to be recognized by the West. She concludes with an examination of the radical rethinking of fundamental economic theory currently occuring in Japan and outlines some of the exciting new approaches which are emerging from this 'shaking of the foundations.

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181

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Routledge

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100015405X

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9781000154054

On the Frontiers of History

Rethinking East Asian Borders

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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On the Frontiers of History

Rethinking East Asian Borders

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.

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ANU Press

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1760463701

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9781760463700

The Past Within Us

Media, Memory, History

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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The Past Within Us

Media, Memory, History

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Despite predictions of the "death of the past" and the "end of history," the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge of interest in popular representations of history on the large and small screen, and of impassioned political conflicts over rival understandings of the past. Historical responsibility and apology have become contentious topics of domestic politics and of international diplomatic relations, and memory a profitable commodity for sale to mass markets. Against this background, how do historians deal with the problems of the search for "historical truth"? The Past Within Us approaches these issues by examining the problems of representing history in the popular media. Drawing on examples from East Asian and American as well as European history, it poses the question: What happens when accounts of history are transferred from one medium to another? How far does the medium shape the message? How can historians deploy contemporary media in ways which evoke and develop the historical imagination? From the romances of Walter Scott to Steven Spielberg blockbusters, from online Irish nationalism to Japanese revisionist comic books, The Past Within Us explores some of the more dramatic modern popular representations and reflects on the key challenges and possibilities for the communication of history in a multimedia age.

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Verso Books

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1789602297

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9781789602296

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

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To the Diamond Mountains

A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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To the Diamond Mountains

A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows in the footsteps of a remarkable writer, artist, and feminist who traced the route a century ago—in the year when Korea became a Japanese colony—her saga reveals an unseen face of China and the two Koreas: a world of monks, missionaries, and smugglers; of royal tombs and socialist mausoleums; a world where today's ideological confrontations are infused with myth and memory. Northeast Asia is poised at a moment of profound change as the rise of China is transforming the global order and tensions run high on the Korean Peninsula, the last Cold War divide. Probing the deep past of this region, To the Diamond Mountains offers a new and unexpected perspective on its present and future.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442205059

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Japan's Living Politics

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

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1108804993

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Showa

An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Showa

An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Showa, Japanese for 'radiant peace', was the name given to Emperor Hirohito's reign at his accession in 1926. This was the beginning of a significant period of growth of militarism, the Pacific war and the phenomenal post-war economic expansion of Japan. The first book to present modern Japanese history through the eyes of individuals, Showa presents the experiences of three individuals born at the beginning of this age, giving a unique inside view of Japan's recent history. Their experiences include training as a suicide pilot, being a draft evader during the Pacific War, a leader in the Communist Party, and a colonist in Korea, turned overnight in August 1945 from a member of the ruling elite into a refugee. First published in 1984, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

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A&C Black

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178093968X

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To the Diamond Mountains

A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea

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Book's by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Borderline Japan

Borderline Japan

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Japan's Living Politics

Japan's Living Politics

The Technological Transformation of Japan

The Technological Transformation of Japan

Re-inventing Japan

Re-inventing Japan

Japanese Capitalism Since 1945

Japanese Capitalism Since 1945

Exodus to North Korea

Exodus to North Korea

History of Japanese Economic Thought

History of Japanese Economic Thought

On the Frontiers of History

On the Frontiers of History

The Past Within Us

The Past Within Us

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

To the Diamond Mountains

To the Diamond Mountains

Japan's Living Politics

Japan's Living Politics

Showa

Showa

To the Diamond Mountains

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