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[The] book’s careful parsing of the media portrayals of such current events in the early postwar decades, as well as Smith’s attention to the importance of print media itself in shaping individual and national ideals of subjectivity at this time, are enlightening enough to recommend this work. * The Journal of Japanese Studies * This wide ranging and innovative work challenges our understanding of how Japanese nationalism reemerged in the postwar period. According to Martyn Smith this process should be analyzed, not in terms of elite discourses and its genealogies, but as a function of national consciousness under the conditions of a global Cold War. This thought-provoking study thus frames the discussion of nationalism around the issues of subjectivity, print capitalism, and everyday life. Smith also makes the case that the 1950s and 1960s were truly pivotal in this process, offering nuanced readings of the debates over national identity during these decades. * Eric Han, Associate Professor of History, William and Mary University, Williamsburg, USA *

This wide ranging and innovative work challenges our understanding of how Japanese nationalism reemerged in the postwar period. According to Martyn Smith this process should be analyzed, not in terms of elite discourses and its genealogies, but as a function of national consciousness under the conditions of a global Cold War. This thought-provoking study thus frames the discussion of nationalism around the issues of subjectivity, print capitalism, and everyday life. Smith also makes the case that the 1950s and 1960s were truly pivotal in this process, offering nuanced readings of the debates over national identity during these decades. --Eric Han, Associate Professor of History, William and Mary University, Williamsburg, USA

[The] book's careful parsing of the media portrayals of such current events in the early postwar decades, as well as Smith's attention to the importance of print media itself in shaping individual and national ideals of subjectivity at this time, are enlightening enough to recommend this work. * The Journal of Japanese Studies * This wide ranging and innovative work challenges our understanding of how Japanese nationalism reemerged in the postwar period. According to Martyn Smith this process should be analyzed, not in terms of elite discourses and its genealogies, but as a function of national consciousness under the conditions of a global Cold War. This thought-provoking study thus frames the discussion of nationalism around the issues of subjectivity, print capitalism, and everyday life. Smith also makes the case that the 1950s and 1960s were truly pivotal in this process, offering nuanced readings of the debates over national identity during these decades. * Eric Han, Associate Professor of History, William and Mary University, Williamsburg, USA *

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Martyn David Smith is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at SOAS, University of London, UK.

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