01941 a2200385 4500 1351654497 20250317111607.0 250312042018GB 78 eng 9781351654494 Taylor & Francis GBP 41.99 BB 01 eng JNA thema CFDM thema GTM thema JB thema NH thema 1FPJ bisac JNA bic CFDM bic GTB bic JF bic HB bic 1FPJ bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 428.0071052 bisac Mayumi Ohara English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation Politics and Pedagogy 1 Oxford Routledge 20180627 292 p In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged, who were school students at the time of the Occupation and who experienced first-hand this immense cultural change. The book considers the nature of the changing outlook, including democratization, the new role for the Japanese Emperor and all this represented for the place of tradition in Japanese life and the growing emphasis on individualism away from collectivism. It discusses the changing system of education itself, including new structures and new textbooks, and relates the feelings of the participants as they came to terms with defeat and the language and culture of the former enemy. Overall, the book provides a fascinating insight into a key period of Japanese history. John Buchanan A01 4665 4665