Rebuilding urban Japan after 1945

edited by Carola Hein, Jeffry M. Diefendorf, and Ishida Yorifusa
Palgrave Macmillan
9780333659625
0-333-65962-7

This is the first book in English to examine the reconstruction of Japan's bombed cities after World War II. Five case studies (of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Okinawa, and Nagaoka) are framed by broader essays.

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on the evolution of Japanese planning and architecture, Japan's urban policies in Manchuria and comparisons between Japanese and European reconstruction.