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Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.
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TextPublication details: Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2018 Description: x, 398p. Photo; 24 cmISBN: 9781501725852 (pdf); 9781501725869 (epub/mobi)Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History | Waste minimization -- Japan -- History | Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History | Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945- | Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-DDC classification: 363.7280952 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Read Japan Project | 363.7280952 S61788w (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2018 | 01 | Available | G000504 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : meaning and value in the everyday -- Imperatives of waste -- Better living through consumption -- Wars against waste -- A bright stinginess -- Consuming desires -- Living the good life? -- Battling the time thieves -- Greening consciousness -- We are all waste conscious now -- Sorting things out -- Afterword : waste and well-being.
"A history of the many and changing ideas of waste in Japan from the mid-1940s to the present"--
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