All Outputs (10)

Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy (2023)
Book Chapter
Bronson, A. (2023). Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy. In S. Avenell (Ed.), Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook (47-64). Japan Documents / Amsterdam University Press

How did the public opinion poll become a symbol of democracy and shape postwar political culture? This chapter addresses this question through the dynamic relationship among the Allied Occupation, the Japanese government and polling experts during th... Read More about Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy.

Tenko: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan edited by Irena Hayter, George T. Sipos and Mark Williams (2023)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2023). Tenko: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan edited by Irena Hayter, George T. Sipos and Mark Williams. The journal of Japanese studies, 49(1), 192-196. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.0018

Shinzo Abe and the Future of Japanese Democracy (2021)
Other
Bronson, A. (2021). Shinzo Abe and the Future of Japanese Democracy

War and the latent public: Shimizu Ikutaro on rumours and public opinion in transwar Japan, 1937-1960 (2020)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2022). War and the latent public: Shimizu Ikutaro on rumours and public opinion in transwar Japan, 1937-1960. Global Intellectual History, 7(1), 65-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2020.1816840

This article explores the relationship between rumour and public opinion in Japan across the middle decades of the twentieth century. By situating Shimizu Ikutaro’s 1937 theory of rumour as ‘latent public opinion’ in comparative perspective, I show h... Read More about War and the latent public: Shimizu Ikutaro on rumours and public opinion in transwar Japan, 1937-1960.

Secondary Art and the Two-Story House: Kuwabara Takeo and the Comparative Imagination in Midcentury Japan, 1935-1947 (2020)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2021). Secondary Art and the Two-Story House: Kuwabara Takeo and the Comparative Imagination in Midcentury Japan, 1935-1947. Modern Intellectual History, 18(2), 451-473. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479244320000013

This article focuses on the life and ideas of Kuwabara Takeo, a cultural critic and scholar of French literature who became renowned for his 1946 critique of haiku as a “secondary art” in comparison with the novel. By reconstructing Kuwabara’s intell... Read More about Secondary Art and the Two-Story House: Kuwabara Takeo and the Comparative Imagination in Midcentury Japan, 1935-1947.

Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 by Nathan Hopson (2019)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2019). Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 by Nathan Hopson. The journal of Japanese studies, 45(2), 381-385. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2019.0041

Monster of the twentieth century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan’s first anti-imperialist movement by Robert Thomas Tierney (2018)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2018). Monster of the twentieth century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan’s first anti-imperialist movement by Robert Thomas Tierney. Global Intellectual History, 4(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1484580

One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan (2016)
Book
Bronson, A. (2016). One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan. University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824855338.001.0001

Kyōkai no kōbō: senzen no Yanagita ni yoru rekishigaku minzokugaku hihan to sengo minzokugaku (2012)
Book Chapter
Bronson, A. (2012). Kyōkai no kōbō: senzen no Yanagita ni yoru rekishigaku minzokugaku hihan to sengo minzokugaku. In R. Morse, & A. Norio (Eds.), Sekai no naka no Yanagita Kunio = Yanagita Kunio studies around the world (47-82). Fujiwara Shoten

Japanese Folklore Studies and History: Prewar and Postwar Inflections (2008)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2008). Japanese Folklore Studies and History: Prewar and Postwar Inflections