postwar

In "No Spiritual Investment in the World: Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy", Willem Styfhals (who is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven) explores the Gnostic worldview's enigmatic place in these discourses on modernity, presenting a comprehensive intellectual history of Gnosticism's role in postwar German thought.

Yasuoka uses connections between people and the land--migration on the one hand, and agriculture and rural villages on the other--to re-examine the processes through which modern Japanese society underwent extensive changes, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific War and the postwar period.

The question "does Japan matter?" is a tired cliche but one that has persisted over the two and a half decades since Japan's postwar economic bubble burst, taking with it the belief that Japan's already apparent systemic problems of monoculturalism and demographics (to take just two examples) could be overcome by a new model of national economic power.

Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World, by Aiyaz Husain.

Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society is an in-depth scrutiny of the relationship between civilian Japanese society and the SDF, from the 1950's to the present day.

Stockwin (trans.), Japan's Postwar. New York: Nissan institute/Routledge Japanese studies, 2011.

Some topics include the art of bourgeois culture in Kamakura, neighborhood associations and food rationing in postwar Japan, Pan American World Airways in postwar Japan, and assessing 20 years of financial reform.

As a result, transportation project planners increasingly must consider postwar residences as part of a project's compliance with Section 106.

dollar dropped to a fresh postwar low of 75.32 yen Monday morning in Oceanian trading, falling below the previous record of 75.67 yen marked last week in New York.