- Series
- Japan: 1868-1968
- Air Date
- 1968-11-23
- Duration
- 00:28:22
- Episode Description
- Professor Maki discusses some of the changes in Japanese society since 1945, which he describes as a transition from a modern authoritarian to a modern democratic society, including constitutional freedoms such as human rights and universal suffrage; maintaining a policy of pacifism in the face of encroaching communism; the rise of agricultural development and land ownership; and the economic miracle of Japanese production and consumer affluence as a consequence of postwar reconstruction.
- Series Description
- A lecture series on the centennial of the beginning of the modernization of Japan, featuring John M. Maki, University of Massachusetts.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WFCR (Radio station : Amherst, Mass.) (Producer)Four College Radio (Producer)
- Contributors
- Maki, John M. (John McGilvrey), 1909- (Lecturer)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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