Nick Kapur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Kapur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapur |
| SIGNATURE | KAPUR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of History, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5234-3409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christopher Gerteis. Mobilizing Japanese Youth
In Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation, Christopher Gerteis presents four case studies of efforts by members of what he calls the “transwar generation” to mobilize Japanese youth of a postwar “sixties generation” in support of various ideological projects on both the left and right. In each case, Gerteis argues that these mobilization efforts ultimately failed, such that his study could just as readily…
The Japanese Student Movement in the Cold War Crucible, 1945-1972
This article provides a concise overview of the well-organized, nationwide student movement which emerged in Japan in the immediate aftermath of World War II; its participation in the escalating political struggles of the 1950s, including an abortive attempt at a communist revolution from 1950 to 1952, anti-military base protests climaxing in the Sunagawa struggle from 1955 to 1957, and the massive Anpo protests against the US-Japan Security Trea…
Policing Hearts and Minds in Cold War Japan
The 1950s were a pivotal decade in United States-Japan relations. As Jennifer Miller convincingly details in her groundbreaking new study Cold War Democracy, despite the official end of the U.S.-led military occupation of Japan in 1952, the United States continued to view Japan as a central pillar in its global Cold War strategy, both as a forward base in Asia and perhaps more importantly as a model—to be held up to other non-western nations—of t…
K enneth B. P yle . Japan in the American Century
Readers interested in the history of U.S.-Japan relations have waited a long time for a book like this. Previous surveys in English, most notably Michael Schaller’s Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation (1997) and Walter LaFeber’s The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations throughout History (1998), while deeply researched, relied exclusively on the English-language archive. In contrast, Kenneth B. Pyle’s Japan in the American …
Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty
Reviewed by: Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty Nick Kapur (bio) Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan. By Justin Jesty. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2018. xii, 326 pages. $49.95. Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan is a brilliant puzzle box of a book—at times vexing, but mostly delightful. Jesty's stated aim is to use avant-garde visual art in 1950s Japan to rediscover the highly contested …
Japan's Streets of Rage
This excerpt from the author's recent book Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo (Harvard University Press, 2018) describes the dramatic climax of the massive 1960 protests in Japan against the US-Japan Security Treaty (abbreviated Anpo in Japanese), which is the treaty that continues to allow the United States to station troops on Japanese soil to this day. Events described include the May 19th incident, in which Japanese p…
Japan at the Crossroads
In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed the evolution of Japan's politics and culture, and its global role. Nick Kapur's analysis helps resolve Japan's essential paradox as being innovative yet regressive, flexible yet resistant, imaginative yet wedded to tradition
The Empire Strikes Back? The 1968 Meiji Centennial Celebrations and the Revival of Japanese Nationalism
In 1968, the conservative Japanese government of Prime Minister Satō Eisaku mounted a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1868 ‘Meiji Restoration’ that had launched Japan’s modern era. Although the government took pains to make the commemoration seem non-political, the centennial aroused fierce opposition among those on the left, who feared it represented an effort to revive aspects of pre-World War II militarism. The resistance…
Japan at the Crossroads
Japan at the Crossroads explains how massive protests in Japan against the US-Japan alliance in 1960 produced enduring transformations in Japanese politics, society, and culture, as well as in US-Japan relations and the Cold War international system. The protests were the largest popular protests in Japan's modern history, lasting more than a year and reaching a violent climax in June 1960, when thousands of radical activists stormed the National…
Mending the “Broken Dialogue”
This article charts U.S.-Japan relations during the John F. Kennedy administration, particularly efforts to repair the U.S.-Japan alliance following massive protests in Japan against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Challenging previous scholarship that minimized these efforts, I describe a fundamental reformulation of U.S.-Japan relations that continues to adhere today
Japan's 1968
In 1967, 1968, and 1969, Japan was wracked by student uprisings that ultimately forced the closure of university campuses nationwide. Japan's student uprisings more or less coincided with the so-called "Global Revolutions of 1968" raging around the world, including (among many others) civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests in the United States, the Cultural Revolution in China, large uprisings of students and workers in France and Germany, an…
William McKinley's Values and the Origins of the Spanish‐American War
Prevailing interpretations of the causes of the Spanish‐American War emphasize the role of yellow journalism, business interests, or congressional politics in forcing President William McKinley into a war that he neither sought nor wanted. This article reexamines McKinley's decision making in the months leading up to the Spanish‐American War in the context of “Victorian” values, such as arbitrationism, pacifism, humanitarianism, and manly self‐re…
The Empire Strikes Back? The 1968 Meiji Centennial Celebrations and the Revival of Japanese Nationalism
In 1968, the conservative Japanese government of Prime Minister Satō Eisaku mounted a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1868 ‘Meiji Restoration’ that had launched Japan’s modern era. Although the government took pains to make the commemoration seem non-political, the centennial aroused fierce opposition among those on the left, who feared it represented an effort to revive aspects of pre-World War II militarism. The resistance…
William McKinley's Values and the Origins of the Spanish‐American War
Prevailing interpretations of the causes of the Spanish‐American War emphasize the role of yellow journalism, business interests, or congressional politics in forcing President William McKinley into a war that he neither sought nor wanted. This article reexamines McKinley's decision making in the months leading up to the Spanish‐American War in the context of “Victorian” values, such as arbitrationism, pacifism, humanitarianism, and manly self‐re…
Japan's 1968
In 1967, 1968, and 1969, Japan was wracked by student uprisings that ultimately forced the closure of university campuses nationwide. Japan's student uprisings more or less coincided with the so-called "Global Revolutions of 1968" raging around the world, including (among many others) civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests in the United States, the Cultural Revolution in China, large uprisings of students and workers in France and Germany, an…
Mending the “Broken Dialogue”
This article charts U.S.-Japan relations during the John F. Kennedy administration, particularly efforts to repair the U.S.-Japan alliance following massive protests in Japan against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Challenging previous scholarship that minimized these efforts, I describe a fundamental reformulation of U.S.-Japan relations that continues to adhere today
Japan at the Crossroads
In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed the evolution of Japan's politics and culture, and its global role. Nick Kapur's analysis helps resolve Japan's essential paradox as being innovative yet regressive, flexible yet resistant, imaginative yet wedded to tradition
The Empire Strikes Back? The 1968 Meiji Centennial Celebrations and the Revival of Japanese Nationalism
In 1968, the conservative Japanese government of Prime Minister Satō Eisaku mounted a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1868 ‘Meiji Restoration’ that had launched Japan’s modern era. Although the government took pains to make the commemoration seem non-political, the centennial aroused fierce opposition among those on the left, who feared it represented an effort to revive aspects of pre-World War II militarism. The resistance…
Japan at the Crossroads
Japan at the Crossroads explains how massive protests in Japan against the US-Japan alliance in 1960 produced enduring transformations in Japanese politics, society, and culture, as well as in US-Japan relations and the Cold War international system. The protests were the largest popular protests in Japan's modern history, lasting more than a year and reaching a violent climax in June 1960, when thousands of radical activists stormed the National…
Policing Hearts and Minds in Cold War Japan
The 1950s were a pivotal decade in United States-Japan relations. As Jennifer Miller convincingly details in her groundbreaking new study Cold War Democracy, despite the official end of the U.S.-led military occupation of Japan in 1952, the United States continued to view Japan as a central pillar in its global Cold War strategy, both as a forward base in Asia and perhaps more importantly as a model—to be held up to other non-western nations—of t…
K enneth B. P yle . Japan in the American Century
Readers interested in the history of U.S.-Japan relations have waited a long time for a book like this. Previous surveys in English, most notably Michael Schaller’s Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation (1997) and Walter LaFeber’s The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations throughout History (1998), while deeply researched, relied exclusively on the English-language archive. In contrast, Kenneth B. Pyle’s Japan in the American …
Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty
Reviewed by: Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty Nick Kapur (bio) Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan. By Justin Jesty. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2018. xii, 326 pages. $49.95. Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan is a brilliant puzzle box of a book—at times vexing, but mostly delightful. Jesty's stated aim is to use avant-garde visual art in 1950s Japan to rediscover the highly contested …
Japan's Streets of Rage
This excerpt from the author's recent book Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo (Harvard University Press, 2018) describes the dramatic climax of the massive 1960 protests in Japan against the US-Japan Security Treaty (abbreviated Anpo in Japanese), which is the treaty that continues to allow the United States to station troops on Japanese soil to this day. Events described include the May 19th incident, in which Japanese p…
Christopher Gerteis. Mobilizing Japanese Youth
In Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation, Christopher Gerteis presents four case studies of efforts by members of what he calls the “transwar generation” to mobilize Japanese youth of a postwar “sixties generation” in support of various ideological projects on both the left and right. In each case, Gerteis argues that these mobilization efforts ultimately failed, such that his study could just as readily…
The Japanese Student Movement in the Cold War Crucible, 1945-1972
This article provides a concise overview of the well-organized, nationwide student movement which emerged in Japan in the immediate aftermath of World War II; its participation in the escalating political struggles of the 1950s, including an abortive attempt at a communist revolution from 1950 to 1952, anti-military base protests climaxing in the Sunagawa struggle from 1955 to 1957, and the massive Anpo protests against the US-Japan Security Trea…
Political science (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economic history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works)