In the early 1970s some Japanese historians embarked on a critical examination of the overwhelmingly positive evaluation of the reforms, most notably Land reform, implemented by the Allied Forces during the Occupation period (1945-52) which had hitherto been predominant. This marked the initial step towards reevaluating the impact of the Occupation on Japanese institutions and, on a broader scale, prompted a reexamination of the discontinuity between the prewar and postwar period. What was at stake in this long-lasting debate was the very definition of “postwar”. This essay delves into the pivotal phases of this debate, aiming to shed light on how the concept of continuity evolved into an essential reference point within the historical debate and how this impacted on the peculiar application of the category of “postwar” to Japanese contemporary history.
University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6351-527X
Titolo del capitolo
Ripensare la continuità: la periodizzazione del dopoguerra nel dibattito storiografico giapponese
Autori
Noemi Lanna
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4.29
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Il dono dell’airone
Sottotitolo del libro
Scritti in onore di Ikuko Sagiyama
Curatori
Luca Capponcelli, Diego Cucinelli, Chiara Ghidini, Matilde Mastrangelo, Rolando Minuti
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
390
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0421-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0422-4
Collana
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
ISSN della collana
2975-0393
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0261