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"In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more equitable, democratic and peaceful society. Post-Fascist Japan explores this phenomenon, focusing on a group of highly educated Japanese - humanists, historians and social scientists -- based in the former capital and coastal city of Kamakura, where the new political culture was particularly visible. Many of these leftist elites had been seen as 'the enemy' during the war, making this project of domestic repair deeply personal for them. The book argues that they saw the problem as one of fascism, an ideology that had succeeded because it had addressed real problems. They turned their efforts to overtly political-legal systems but also to ostensibly non-political and community institutions such as universities, art museums, and local tourism and environmental policies, aiming not only for reconciliation over the past but also to reduce the anxieties that had drawn so many towards fascism. By focusing on a particular group of people in a particular place who had an outsized influence on Japan's political culture, Hein's study is both local and national. She grounds her theoretical discussion by using specific personalities, showing their ideas about 'post-fascism', how they implemented them and how they interacted with the American Occupiers. This is a unique, engaging and important study which will be extremely valuable for students and scholars of 20th-century Japanese intellectual, political and social history"--
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"In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture--policies, institutions, and public opinion--to create a more equitable, democratic and peaceful society. Post-Fascist Japan explores this phenomenon, focusing on a group of highly educated Japanese based in the city of Kamakura, where the new political culture was particularly visible. The book argues that these leftist elites, many of whom had been seen as 'the enemy' during the war, saw the problem as one of fascism, an ideology that had succeeded because it had addressed real problems. They turned their efforts to overtly political-legal systems but also to ostensibly non-political and community institutions such as universities, art museums, local tourism, and environmental policies, aiming not only for reconciliation over the past but also to reduce the anxieties that had drawn so many towards fascism. By focusing on people who had an outsized influence on Japan's political culture, Hein's study is local, national, and transnational. She grounds her discussion using specific personalities, showing their ideas about 'post-fascism', how they implemented them and how they interacted with the American occupiers."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Political culture --- Fascism --- Kamakura-shi (Japan) --- Politics and government.
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A fascinating look at a Zen convent throughout its history.
Divorce --- Women's shelters --- Marriage --- Broken homes --- Divorced people --- Battered women's shelters --- Crisis housing, Women's --- Emergency housing for women --- Refuges, Women's --- Shelters, Women's --- Women's crisis housing --- Women's emergency housing --- Women's refuges --- Emergency housing --- Women --- History. --- Services for --- Tōkeiji (Kamakura-shi, Japan) --- Kamakura-shi (Japan). --- Matsugaoka Gosho (Kamakura-shi, Japan) --- 東慶寺 (Kamakura-shi, Japan)
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National surveys indicate that most Japanese, while professing no religious commitment, frequently perform rituals: They regularly tend their family home altars, look after family graves, participate in neighborhood festivals, and visit Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Are these rituals mere formalities? Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in Kamakura city near Tokyo, Satsuki Kawano examines the power of ritual and its relevance for modern urbanites. She reveals the indebtedness of ritual to forms that create an elevated context and infuse the mundane with a sense of moral order. By employing acts and environments common to everyday life, Kawano argues, ritual evokes morally positive values such as purity, gratitude, respect, and indebtedness. Rather than objectify morality in a sacred text or religious doctrine, ritual embodies and emplaces a sense of what it means to be a good person and creates moments of personal significance and engagement. In Kamakura, belief is therefore a consequence and not a prerequisite of ritual engagement. Ritual Practice in Modern Japan effectively challenges the widespread assumption that ritual in non-Western societies has little moral significance and that, with modernization, "traditional" practices inevitably disappear. This is a book that will interest scholars and students of cultural anthropology, ritual studies, and Japanese studies.
Rites and ceremonies --- Festivals --- Fasts and feasts --- Kamakura-shi (Japan) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs.
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Divorce --- Women's shelters --- History. --- Tōkeiji (Kamakura-shi, Japan) --- J1810.14 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- temples and monastries, pilgrimage -- Kamakura city --- Marriage --- Broken homes --- Divorced people --- Battered women's shelters --- Crisis housing, Women's --- Emergency housing for women --- Refuges, Women's --- Shelters, Women's --- Women's crisis housing --- Women's emergency housing --- Women's refuges --- Emergency housing --- Women --- History --- Services for --- Tōkeiji (Kamakura-shi, Japan) --- Kamakura-shi (Japan). --- Matsugaoka Gosho (Kamakura-shi, Japan) --- 東慶寺 (Kamakura-shi, Japan) --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- temples and monasteries, pilgrimage -- Kamakura city --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- temples and monasteries, pilgrimage -- Kantō -- Kanagawa prefecture -- Kamakura city
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