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1 online resource (156 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Experiencing the Housing Crisis, by Ky6ko Sasaki; 3. Housing Policy in Early Postwar Japan; 4. Toward a Lifestyle Revolution; 5. Selling the Home Ownership Dream; 6. Housing in Greater Tokyo; 7. Japanese Housing at Century's End; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Radical changes in the design of housing in post-war Japan had numerous effects on the Japanese people. Public policy toward housing provision and the effects of escalating land prices in Tokyo and a few other very large cities in the country from the mid- to late 1970s onward are examined, but it is dwellings themselves and the slow but steady shift from a floor-sitting to a chair-sitting housing culture in urban and suburban parts of the country that figure most prominently in the discussion. Central to the book is the author's translation of an account written by Kyoko Sasaki, an observ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Housing -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Housing. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Social conditions. |
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1945- |
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Since 1900 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waswo, Ann. Housing in Postwar Japan - A Social History. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780700715176 |
| ISBN |
9781136860904 (electronic book) |
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1136860908 (electronic book) |
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9781136860836 |
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1136860835 |
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