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Olson, Lawrence was born on May 7, 1918 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Lawrence A. and Wanda (Liddell) Olson.
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Although Western scholars have examined many aspects of contemporary Japan, Japanese postwar intellectual history has largely been overlooked. In this book, Olson introduces readers to four prominent postwar Japanese intellectuals whose writings illustrate the principal alternative native paths through which they sought to redefine their cultural identity and arrive at the meaning of Japanese nationality after defeat in World War II. Although virtually unknown outside Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi, Tsurumi Shunsuke, Et Jun and Yoshimoto Takaaki found a wide audience for their books and artifices in leading journals. Behind their wall of linguistic and psychological isolation, these intellectuals weigh and go on weighing endlessly the relative value of traditional Japanese culture.
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(Dimensions of Japan: A Collection of Illuminating Reports...)
Dimensions of Japan: A Collection of Illuminating Reports on Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Postwar Japan for the American Universities Field Staff CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; LOCAL STUDIES: A Japanese Small Industry; Kyoto Superintendent of Schools; In a Country Temple; Takehara: A Good Place to Be From; Mrs. Masuda and the Buraku People; 'Mizucho' in His District; NATIONAL ISSUES AND PROBLEMS: Four Family Budgets; Birth Control in Japan; Ethics, Yes, But Which Ethics?; How the Japanese Divorce; Pages from a Political Notebook; Japanese Elections of 1958: Preview; Japanese Elections of 1958: Outcome; Police Bill Controversy; Prince and the Politicians; A Japanese Marxist; Six Months After the Storm: The Japanese Elections of 1960; Atomic Crosscurrents in Japan; Utopia of the Conservatives; Japan's Search for an Oil Policy; JAPAN IN ASIA AND THE WORLD: On the 'Orphan Japan'; Japanese in India Today; Japanese Activities in Burma; Politics of Flower Arrangement; 'In Ten Years, in Fifty Years': Comments on China Trade; Japan and Korea: The Bitter Legacy; Okinawa Perspectives; Berlin from Japan; NEW JAPAN: A Note on Japan.Keywords: DIMENSIONS OF JAPAN LAWRENCE OLSON REPORTS COLLECTION POLITICAL POLITICS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY SOCIAL POSTWAR JAPAN JAPANESE
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Olson, Lawrence was born on May 7, 1918 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Lawrence A. and Wanda (Liddell) Olson.
Bachelor of Arts, University Mississippi, 1938; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1939; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1955; Master of Arts (honorary), Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1969.
Cultural attache, American embassy, Manila, Philippines, 1951-1952; staff associate, American Universities Field Staff, 1955-1966; senior staff associate, American Universities Field Staff, 1962-1966; professor of history, Wesleyan University, 1966-1984; professor emeritus, Wesleyan University, 1984-1992; developer university Asian studies program, Wesleyan University. Visiting professor Dartmouth, 1964-1965. Visiting fellow Council on Foreign Rels., 1968-1969.
(Dimensions of Japan: A Collection of Illuminating Reports...)
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Served to Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Member Japan Society, Association Asian Studies.
Married Jeane E. Noordhoff, December 19, 1941. Children: Alexandra Lyman, Sarah Liddell.