Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan
by
Simon Andrew Avenell
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces...