“Consuming Japan in Cold War America”. A review of Meghan Warner Mettler, How to Reach Japan by Subway: America’s Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945-1965 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018). 294 pp. $50.00 (hardcover).

One of the most striking aspects of Meghan Warner Mettler’s lucid and groundbreaking portrayal of postwar American engagement with Japanese culture is the sheer breadth of the phenomenon. Mettler starts out by analyzing the critical acclaim that was received by three Japanese films that arrived to A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nagahara, Hiromu
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122664