Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.s. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society

by Caprio, Mark E.; Sugita, Yoneyuki

• ISBN13: 9780203964255
• ISBN10: 020396425X
• Copyright: 2007-03-20
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: the U.S. occupation of Japan - innovation, continuity, and compromise	p. 1
Feeding the Japanese: food policy, land reform, and Japan's economic recovery	p. 26
Occupation policy and the Japanese fisheries management regime, 1945-1952	p. 48
Protective labor legislation and gender equality: the impact of the occupation on Japanese working women	p. 67
The impact of the occupation on crime in Japan	p. 89
Educational reform and history textbooks in occupied Japan	p. 120
Universal health insurance: the unfinished reform of Japan's healthcare system	p. 147
Resident aliens: forging the political status of Koreans in occupied Japan	p. 178
Occupation policy and postwar Sino-Japanese relations: severing economic ties	p. 200
A secondary affair: United States economic foreign policy and Japan, 1945-1968	p. 220
Index	p. 242
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