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Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950's, Japan was urged to establish the Self-Defense Forces as a way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of Asian communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to self-defense, Japan's armed forces are equipped with advanced weapons technology and the world's third-largest military budget. Sabine Frühstück draws on interviews, historical research, and analysis to describe the unusual case of a non-war-making military. As the first scholar permitted to participate in basic SDF training, she offers a firsthand look at an army trained for combat that nevertheless serves nontraditional military needs.

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In Playing War, Sabine Frühstück makes a bold proposition: that for over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. She argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the child: that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent will to war, and that this seemingly contradictory creature demonstrates what it means to be human. In examining the intersection of children/childhood with war/military, Frühstück identifies the insidious factors perpetuating this alliance, thus rethinking the very foundations of modern militarism. She interrogates how essentialist notions of both childhood and war have been productively intertwined; how assumptions about childhood and war have converged; and how children and childhood have worked as symbolic constructions and powerful rhetorical tools, particularly in the decades between the nation- and empire-building efforts of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the uneven manifestations of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first.

Children and war --- Militarism --- War --- History. --- History --- child labor. --- child military. --- childhood. --- children. --- exploiting children. --- globalization. --- history of children and war. --- history of children. --- innocence. --- japan. --- late 19th century. --- modern conceptions of war. --- modern militarism. --- naturalizing war. --- peace. --- rhetorical tools. --- symbolic constructions. --- vulnerability. --- what it means to be human.

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J4142 --- J4150 --- J4160 --- J6900 --- J6800 --- J6850 --- Leisure --- -Recreation --- -Manners and customs --- Amusements --- Community centers --- Free time (Leisure) --- Leisure time --- Recreation --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements in general --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- festivals, holidays and tourism --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- general and history --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- general and history --- Japan: Games, toys and hobbies in general --- Social aspects --- -Social aspects --- -J4142 --- -Free time (Leisure) --- -Leisure --- Manners and customs

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"Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the "child crisis." Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations--some from Japan's early-modern past--are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters."--Provided by publisher.

E-books --- J4204.30 --- J4224 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- age groups -- youth, minors --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology -- youth, young men and women --- History --- Asian history --- Children --- Education --- Parent and child --- History. --- Japan --- Social conditions. --- Child and parent --- Children and parents --- Parent-child relations --- Parents and children --- Children and adults --- Interpersonal relations --- Parental alienation syndrome --- Sandwich generation --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- bullying in schools. --- child crisis. --- child poverty. --- child suicides. --- childhood. --- conservative educational curriculum. --- diaries. --- global conversations. --- history of emotions. --- household records. --- how to raise children. --- japan. --- japanese childhood. --- japanese culture. --- kids. --- letters. --- memoirs. --- nature of children. --- raising children. --- socially withdrawn. --- violent crimes.