Nick Kapur is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden.
Broad in scope and fine-grained in analysis, Kapur's incisive study
of public protest and political realignment shows that Japan stands
shoulder to shoulder with Europe, the Americas, and the People's
Republic of China as a site of cultural upheaval and political
division during the global 1960s. This imaginatively
conceptualized, gracefully written book offers a thoroughgoing
reconsideration of conflict and compromise during that tumultuous
decade in Japan.--Tom Havens, Northeastern University
Kapur productively surveys Japan in 1960, showing how the
anti-Security Treaty protests catalyzed enormous social ferment.
The 'Anpo' moment shook Japan's political and cultural institutions
to their foundations but failed to achieve the political
transformation so many people deeply desired, creating a sense of
unfinished business that continues to this day.--Laura Hein,
Northwestern University
Kapur fixes a hole in our understanding of what happened in the
wake of the 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty crisis by showing how the
grand coalitions of the late 1950s were remade into smaller, more
stratified social movements. This book will be required reading for
anyone seeking to understand the conservative interregnum that
demarcated the Security Treaty protests of 1960 and the Vietnam War
protests of 1968.--Christopher Gerteis, School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London
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