Timothy S. George is Professor of Japanese History at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Christopher Gerteis is Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

• Introduction: Revisiting Postwar Japan, Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George \ Part I: Civic Imaginations \ 1. The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura, Laura E. Hein \ 2. Furusato-zukuri: Saving Home Towns by Reinventing Them, Timothy S. George \ 3. Searching for Furusato History in Kaminoseki, Martin Dusinberre \ Part II: Legacies of War and Occupation \ 4. Dreaming Ryukyu: Shifting and Contesting Identities in Okinawa, David Tobaru Obermiller \ 5. Beyond Black Market: Neighborhood Associations and Food Rationing in Postwar Japan, Katarzyna Cwiertka \ 6. Nurses in Postwar Japan, Sally A. Hastings \ 7. Japan's Other Forgotten Soldiers, Tetsuya Fujiwara \ Part III: State Policy for a Late-Capitalist Society \ 8. The Post-Industrialization of the Developmental State, Lonny E. Carlile \ 9. Reassessing Japan's Big Bang: Twenty Years of Financial Regulatory Reform, Bruce Aronson \ 10. Endless Modernization: Japan's Postwar History of Fisheries Policy and Development, Satsuki Takahashi \ Part IV: Looking Out, Looking Back \ 11. Lofty Dreams: Pan American World Airways and Its Defining Presence in Postwar Japan, Christine Yano \ 12. Marketing History as Social Responsibility, Christopher Gerteis \ 13. Memorializing the Spirit of Wit and Grit in Postindustrial Japan, Hiraku Shimoda \ Conclusion, Stephen Vlastos

Because of the quality of the individual contributions and its display of the current state of research, the book is without doubt a most warmly welcome and necessary addition to the reading lists of students and researchers of modern Japanese history.