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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis study will prove a worthy and ultimately rewarding challenge for motivated readers of cultural history... Recommended. Choice Edifying... [a] timely intervention. -- John Whittier Treat American Historical Review An engaging and thought-provoking study of Japan's culture between 1945 and the early 1960s, which convincingly and with intellectual passion demonstrates how the tensions, anxieties, and repressions that were the global currency of the 'high Cold War' also shaped Japan's media and literature at the time. -- ?Urs Matthias Zachmann Journal of Japanese Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology of the Early Cold War Introduction: The Strange Tension of the Cold War 1. The Meanings of War and Peace After 1945 2. Sex and Democracy: Lady Chatterley's Lover in Cold War Japan 3. Hara Tamiki: First Witness to the Cold War 4. "The World Lives in Fear": Kamei Fumio's Nuclear Films 5. The Aesthetics of Speed and the Illogicality of Politics: Ishihara Shintaro as a Cold War Youth Conclusion: Cold War as Culture Notes Bibliography Index
