Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan

Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan addresses Japan''s evolving nationalism and national identity in relation to its newly rising consumerism during the two decades from 1952 to 1972, through a study of the transformation of the print media and the market for weekly and monthly magazines.

Martyn Smith argues that the transformation of the print media in the 1950s and 196...