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Author | : Naoko Shibusawa |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674043561 |
During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.
Author | : Naoko Shibusawa |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067426732X |
During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. But how was the American public made to accept an alliance with Japan so soon after the "Japs" had been demonized as subhuman, bucktoothed apes with Coke-bottle glasses? In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war. While General MacArthur's Occupation Forces pursued our nation's strategic goals in Japan, liberal American politicians, journalists, and filmmakers pursued an equally essential, though long-unrecognized, goal: the dissemination of a new and palatable image of the Japanese among the American public. With extensive research, from Occupation memoirs to military records, from court documents to Hollywood films, and from charity initiatives to newspaper and magazine articles, Shibusawa demonstrates how the evil enemy was rendered as a feminized, submissive nation, as an immature youth that needed America's benevolent hand to guide it toward democracy. Interestingly, Shibusawa reveals how this obsession with race, gender, and maturity reflected America's own anxieties about race relations and equity between the sexes in the postwar world. America's Geisha Ally is an exploration of how belligerents reconcile themselves in the wake of war, but also offers insight into how a new superpower adjusts to its role as the world's preeminent force.
Author | : Susan Sumida-Gottesman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Marion Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317792580 |
This book captures the challenges and experiences of an American woman who arrived in 1950's Japan. It is a timeless example of how to live abroad successfully in an increasingly global world, as well as fascinating account of everyday life in Japan in the immediate post-war years. .
Author | : Judith Morland |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1468571214 |
The Webster's New World Dictionary (page 24, 1990) defines a 'geisha' as a "Japanese girl trained as an entertainer to serve as a hired companion to men." A true American Geisha must be that and much more. She must be taught self-esteem and self-confidence, but most importantly self-acceptance. She must choose her future carefully, to pursue a business, or to have and raise, a family or possibly both. Lastly, she must decide if she wants to go through life by herself or with a chosen companion. If she chooses companionship, she must be trained in the arts of providing for and serving her Chosen Companion. She must be taught, and be willing to give one hundred percent of herself. She must know herself first, then reach out for friendships, and then seek that special relationship with her Chosen Companion. She must be careful and consider all her options along the way. (We don't always get second chances.) A true understanding of human relationships comes from not only the desire, to have one, but a basic learning process as well. Anything worth having is worth working for. Your inner peace and peaceful relationships are the most precious things attained in this world and certainly worth every effort to attain them.
Author | : Marion Ansel Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Americans |
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Author | : Liza Crihfield Dalby |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520047426 |
The author, an American anthropologist, describes her experiences during the year she spent as a Japanese geisha, and looks at the role of women, and geishas, in modern Japan
Author | : Arthur Golden |
Publisher | : Longman |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9781405882675 |
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.
Author | : Py Kim Conant |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2006-10-23 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1630265713 |
Any single or married woman can find success in the pursuit of love, marriage, and happiness with these sensible, sexy, realistic tips from Py Kim Conant, who used them to find her own American husband. More practical than politically correct, her advice covers every aspect of landing and keeping a man. Developing "Geisha Consciousness," she says, helps maximize a woman's femininity. The author invites readers to become a "Younger Sister," a geisha-in-training, and then proceeds into the four parts of this lively, provocative book: getting started as an American Geisha; sex secrets to bond him to you; planning for marriage; and keeping the marriage fresh and sexy. She suggests specific strategies for women including creating a bedroom shrine of worship to hubby's manhood; learning to express femininity and sexuality; identifying and then dating their "Good Man." An afterword on "Geisha Power," a glossary of terms, recommended reading, and resources help readers expand the experience.
Author | : William Johnston |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 023113052X |
In 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan--the murder and emasculation of her lover. This detailed account of Sada's personal history, the events leading up to the crime, and its aftermath steps beyond the simplistic view of Abe Sada as a sexual deviate or hysterical woman to reveal a survivor.