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Author Siniawer, Eiko Maruko, author.

Title Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : meaning and value in the everyday -- Imperatives of waste -- Better living through consumption -- Wars against waste -- A bright stinginess -- Consuming desires -- Living the good life? -- Battling the time thieves -- Greening consciousness -- We are all waste conscious now -- Sorting things out -- Afterword : waste and well-being.
Summary "A history of the many and changing ideas of waste in Japan from the mid-1940s to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
Japan.
History.
Consumption (Economics)
Waste minimization -- Japan -- History.
Waste minimization.
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Chronological Term 1945-
Subject Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Social conditions.
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Refuse and refuse disposal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Economic conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Consumer Behavior.
Economic history.
Chronological Term Since 1945
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Siniawer, Eiko Maruko. Waste. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501725845 (DLC) 2018000104
ISBN 9781501725852 (pdf)
1501725858
9781501725869 (epub/mobi)
1501725866
9781501725845
150172584X
9781501725845