Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controversial repres

This book argues that postwar gender reform was part of the Cold War containment strategies that eroded rather than promoted women's political and economic righ

During the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of J

In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women'

The value of this book resides in the interweaving of Japanese and American scholarship and viewpoints on a number of aspects of the total Occupation experience