Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan,

by David E. Apter and Nagayo Sawa

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This book is simultaneously a story of a troubled people and an analysis of protest, violence, and challenge to the state authority. The setting is Japan and the instance is the controversial building of the Tokyo International Airport. Apter recreates the struggle of familiar and intimate groups--small farmers, policemen, bureaucrats, radicals--engaged in extra-institutional pretest against the state. Global lessons emerge from this cross-cultural analysis of violent conflict taking place within the political constraints of an advanced, democratic country.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674009207

ISBN13:9780674009202

Release Date:February 1984

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:271 Pages

Weight:1.42 lbs.

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