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How to Reach Japan by Subway: America's Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945-1965

Contributor(s): Mettler, Meghan Warner (Author)

ISBN: 9780803299634

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Pub Date: June 1, 2018

Dewey: 306.09520904

LCCN: 2017041405

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.81" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.29 lbs) 294 pages

Series: Studies in Pacific Worlds

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Description: "A study of the shibui phenomenon, in which American middle-class consumers embraced Japanese culture as familiar, yet exotic, in the two decades following the end of World War II"--

Review Quotes: "Mettler's study does a fine job of bringing much nuance and texture to the place of Japan in postwar American life and culture."--Mari Yoshihara, Journal of American History

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