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Film: Anpo: Art x War

Film: Anpo: Art x War. April 11, 2011 (Mon) Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St 7 pm Reserve tickets by email to rijs@fas.harvard.edu Give you name and number of tix (one or two). Total Defeat. Explaining “stabilization”. atrocity. euphoria. Total War: the front lines. Early victory.

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Film: Anpo: Art x War

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  1. Film: Anpo: Art x War April 11, 2011 (Mon) Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St 7 pm Reserve tickets by email to rijs@fas.harvard.edu Give you name and number of tix (one or two)

  2. Total Defeat Explaining “stabilization”

  3. atrocity euphoria Total War: the front lines Early victory

  4. Total War comes home

  5. Landscapes of Total Defeat

  6. Problem: Explaining Stability • Hopes for revolution • Fears of revolution

  7. Problem: Explaining Stability

  8. Occupation Reforms 1. Dismantle the old order [blamed for the war] • purge wartime leaders (military, party, business) • expropriate landlords • break up zaibatsu

  9. Land Reform Constituencies for and against change • Land reform: tenants and bureaucratic reforms v. landlords

  10. Labor reform • unions and social policy bureaucrats v. • business elite and economic bureaucrats

  11. Constitutional Reform: adapting old form

  12. Reverse course • Context of deepening “cold war” • Fear of left in Japan • From about 1947 • Crackdown on labor • Retreat from zaibatsu dissolution • Purge of communists, 1950 • De-purge of some of “old guard”

  13. Recipe for stabilization • Aggressive reform (with constituencies) • A dash of reaction and restoration of old guard • And stir…..

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