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The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973: Managing a Free World By Naoko Koda. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020. xiii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781498583411 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book)

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2022, Vol.81 (3), p.596-597 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 ;ISSN: 0021-9118 ;EISSN: 1752-0401 ;DOI: 10.1017/S002191182200081X

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    The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973: Managing a Free World By Naoko Koda. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020. xiii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781498583411 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book)
  • Author: Avenell, Simon
  • Subjects: Asian students ; Book Reviews—Northeast Asia ; Cold War ; College campuses ; College students ; Democracy ; E-books ; Fascism ; Foreign policy ; Listening ; Military bases ; Political activism ; Political elites ; Postwar history ; Public opinion ; Radical groups ; Radicalism ; Renewal ; Students ; Treaties ; Vietnam War ; War
  • Is Part Of: The Journal of Asian Studies, 2022, Vol.81 (3), p.596-597
  • Description: Koda's book offers a very welcome comprehensive narrative of the student movement, beginning with the early postwar formation on university campuses of self-governing associations aimed at democratic revolution (ultimately leading to the creation of Zengakuren), and thereafter movements to defend democratic education and expunge fascism in the late 1940s, protests against the expansion of a US military facility in the small town of Sunagawa in the mid-1950s, mobilizations against the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty in 1960 and the Vietnam War from 1965, and large-scale student radicalism from the late 1960s until the early 1970s. [...]the methods adopted by the Americans were not always so heavyhanded and appear to have become more nuanced over time. [...]under the John F. Kennedy administration, a new cadre of relatively more progressive American political elites attempted to woo students through open engagement and outward expressions of genuinely listening to students. In sum, Naoko Koda's book offers a fascinating and richly documented postwar history of the student movement in Japan, greatly enriching our understanding by linking the development of this movement to American Cold War policy and by revealing the various strategies US elites adopted to try and limit Japanese student radicalism that was often triggered by America's global entanglements. simon.avenell@anu.edu.au
  • Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0021-9118
    EISSN: 1752-0401
    DOI: 10.1017/S002191182200081X
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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