Housing in Postwar Japan - A Social History

ISBN-13: 9780367026967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 156 str.

Ann Waswo

Opis

The book centres on the author's translation of an account written by Kyoko Sasaki, an observant wife and mother, about the housing she and her growing family experienced during the 1960s.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Experiencing the Housing Crisis, Ky?ko Sasaki; Chapter 3 Housing Policy in Early Postwar Japan; Chapter 4 Toward a Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 5 Selling the Home Ownership Dream; Chapter 6 Housing in Greater Tokyo; Chapter 7 Japanese Housing at Century’s End;

O autorze

Ann Waswo is Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford, a member of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, and a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.