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History of Contemporary Japan
Day One: Items to Stimulate Questions
“People of the Southern Region” Osaka Puck December 1942
Wartime US images
From John Dower, War Without Mercy
U.S. Occupation, 1945-1952
U.S. Occupation: 1945-1952
Misora Hibari, 1937-1989
Prewar vs. Postwar“Peace Education”
1960: Pivot Year in Economics and Politics
1960-1989
• High growth• LDP dominance in politics• Growing affluence and growth of “middle
mass”• Trade friction• Post “oil crisis” Japan• Consumer society
1989-present
• Showa to Heisei• Decade of recession• Liberalization in Economy and Society• Post Cold War security issues• Conservative political rebirth:– LDP – New conservative political parties