Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction: The U.S. occupation of Japan – innovation, continuity, and compromise......Page 16
1 Feeding the Japanese: Food policy, land reform, and Japan’s economic recovery......Page 41
2 Occupation policy and the Japanese fisheries management regime, 1945–1952......Page 63
3 Protective labor legislation and gender equality: The impact of the occupation on Japanese working women......Page 82
4 The impact of the occupation on crime in Japan......Page 104
5 Educational reform and history textbooks in occupied Japan......Page 135
6 Universal health insurance: The unfinished reform of Japan’s healthcare system......Page 162
7 Resident aliens: Forging the political status of Koreans in occupied Japan......Page 193
8 Occupation policy and postwar Sino-Japanese relations: Severing economic ties......Page 215
9 A secondary affair: United States economic foreign policy and Japan, 1945–1968......Page 235
Index......Page 257