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Japan’s high-speed economic growth was coming to an end by the early 1970s, and contradictions inherent in the capitalist economy became increasingly evident throughout this decade. In this talk, Professor Sasaki discusses uneven development between the city and the countryside during this period as one manifestation of these contradictions and examines how it was imagined and contested in cultural representations.

Tomoyuki Sasaki is a professor of Japanese studies at the College of William & Mary. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Japanese Studies at U-M. He specializes in Japanese history and cultural studies. He is the author of Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth (SUNY Press, 2022).

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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