By Edward Seidensticker
ISBN-10: 4805310243
ISBN-13: 9784805310243
Edward Seidensticker's Tokyo: From Edo to Showa, to be had the following for the 1st time in one quantity, tells the tale of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an remoted Japan to at least one of the main popular smooth towns on this planet. With an analogous scholarship and magnificence that received him admiration as one of many most effective translators of eastern literature, he bargains the reader his personal great photo of an entire society all at once rising into the trendy global. via turns elegiac and humorous, reflective and crisp, Tokyo: From Edo to Showa is a vital cultural heritage of Asia's maximum urban.
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In order to satisfy this hunger the Japanese government and the IRAA created traveling theater groups that journeyed deep into the hinterland to entertain and educate audiences. These bands sometimes performed their own material, but frequently used prize songs produced by contests promoted in another government-sponsored magazine Ie no hikari (Homelight), the magazine of the enormous agricultural cooperative movement. 37 Larger film and entertainment companies like Töhö and Shöchiku financially supported their own traveling groups.
Internal IRAA documents reveal that the organization felt its main responsibility was to lead the village associations (chönaikai) and neighborhood associations (tonarigumi). At the lowest level, neighborhood associations were used for mutual surveillance and to promote peer pressure. 33 Village and neighborhood groups instructed the families and individuals on its roster that because Japan was facing a time of crisis in its war with China every aspect of life had to help the war effort. Lectures, magazines, and other media educated Japanese to think about when and what they purchased, and when and what they used and ate.
In best 24 / The Thought War propaganda style, they complained so persistently that they convinced many foreigners it was true. Japanese like nothing better than to be told they were poor propagandists. 17 More cynically one might say that Japan’s stance that it implemented inefficient propaganda lifted the burden from postwar Japanese society that perhaps civilians were complicit in supporting the war. Postwar scholarship incorrectly labeled the wartime Japanese propaganda campaigns as artifacts of the military and government and not as products of collusion between the civilian society and its leaders.
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