Download or read book Asia and Postwar Japan written by Simon Avenell and published by Harvard East Asian Monographs. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeat in World War II profoundly shaped how the Japanese reconstructed national identity and reengaged with Asia. In Asia and Postwar Japan, Simon Avenell reveals the critical importance of Asia in Japanese thought, activism, and politics--as a symbolic geography, as a space for grassroots engagement, and as the source of a new politics of hope.