Film: Anpo: Art x War

April 11, 2011 (Mon) Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St 7 pm Reserve tickets by email to

rijs@fas.harvard.edu Give you name and number of tix (one or

two)

Total Defeat

Explaining “stabilization”

Total War: the front lines

euphoriaEarly victory atrocity

Total War comes home

Landscapes of Total Defeat

Problem: Explaining Stability•Fears of revolution •Hopes for

revolution

Problem: Explaining Stability

Occupation Reforms

1. Dismantle the old order [blamed for the war]

•purge wartime leaders (military, party, business)

•break up zaibatsu •expropriate landlords

Land Reform

Constituencies for and against change

•Land reform: tenants and bureaucratic reforms v. landlords

Labor reform•unions and social policy bureaucrats v.

business elite and economic bureaucrats

Constitutional Reform: adapting old form

Reverse course

Context of deepening “cold war” Fear of left in Japan From about 1947 Crackdown on labor Retreat from zaibatsu dissolution Purge of communists, 1950 De-purge of some of “old guard”

Recipe for stabilization

Aggressive reform (with constituencies) A dash of reaction and restoration of old

guard And stir…..