{"product_id":"ennobling-japans-savage-northeast-nathan-hopson-9780674977006","title":"Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast: T\u0026#333;hoku as Japanese Postwar Thought, 1945-2011","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnnobling Japan's Savage Northeast\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive account in English of the discursive life of the Tōhoku region in postwar Japan from 1945 through 2011. The Northeast became the subject of world attention with the March 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. But Tōhoku's history and significance to emic understandings of Japanese self and nationhood remain poorly understood. When Japan embarked on its quest to modernize in the mid-nineteenth century, historical prejudice, contemporary politics, and economic calculation together led the state to marginalize Tōhoku, creating a \"backward\" region in both fact and image. After 1945, a group of mostly local intellectuals attempted to overcome this image and rehabilitate the Northeast as a source of new national values. This early postwar Tōhoku recuperation movement has proved to be a critical source for the new Kyoto school's neoconservative valorization of native Japanese identity, fueling that group's antimodern, anti-Western discourse since the 1980s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNathan Hopson unravels the contested postwar meanings of Tōhoku to reveal the complex and contradictory ways in which that region has been incorporated into Japan's shifting self-images since World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathan Hopson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674977009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674977006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018","brand":"Nathan Hopson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086762979583,"sku":"9780674977006","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e05403b0-e495-4834-8682-51592f3a3fff.jpg?v=1769096434","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ennobling-japans-savage-northeast-nathan-hopson-9780674977006","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}