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Book SynopsisReconstructing the dramatic struggle surrounding the building of the New Tokyo (Narita) International Airport near Sanrizuka, this scrutiny of modern protest politics dispels the myth of corporate Japan's unassailable success, while showing that the problems of the Narita situation are also endemic to other industrialized countries.
Trade Review[The authors] listen carefully to voices in the generation-long conflict… From these voices [they] skillfully create a narrative that is simultaneously a penetrating case study, a sophisticated but never obtrusive theory and a phenomenologically rich portrayal of the people involved… It is a rarity in the social sciences—a good read. * New York Times Book Review *
Apter, perhaps because he is an outsider, is one of the most acute observers of the political style of the Japanese. His interviews with the militants, explorations of their lives in the trenches (literally)…contain important insights, missed by most other observers, into the tensions and frustrations of Japanese democracy. * Journal of Asian Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Two Crossroads 1. Sanrizuka and Shibayama 2. Hamlets and Households 3. Past and Present II. The Sanrizuka Movement 4. Fields and Fortresses 5. New Left Sects and Their History 6. The Sects at Sanrizuka 7. The Christ of the Crossroads III. Political Dynamics 8. The Hantai Domei 9. The View from the Top 10. Reflections on Protest Postscript Notes Index
