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Notes on video lecture:
Post-War Americanization in Tokyo
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 14, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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kitchens, Imperial, reconstruct, influence, house, Japanese, American, Disneyland, occupational, mass, 1970, Korea, million, life, Conversation, Chinese, decreased, Blondie
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sudden Americanization process
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Anglo-Japanese                          Manual
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short and small book
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became a best-seller, sold 3.6                copies
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basic American conversation
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Radio Program: "Come Come English"
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Radio Program: "News From America"
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Comic Book: "              "
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American exhibitions
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Film
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the most effective method of Americanization process
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films were a corroboration between CIE (Center for International Exchange) and                  filmmakers
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e.g. a film in which two Japanese students visit an American's            to see how they live
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how they shop
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their ideal                 
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showed contrasts between American and Japanese kitchens
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young women were shown this film to give them images of the American way of         
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the American way of life was promoted during the                          era
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in 1950s and 1960s, statistics and surveys showed that Japanese people became more and more pro-                
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and continued to grow from          to today
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different from the affinity to China
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in the 1950s Japanese people preferred                way of life as much as the American way of life, but preference for the Chinese way of life                    steadily
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among Asian countries, Japanese anti-Chinese sentiment is very strong
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in Tokyo there is a                      and Statue of Liberty
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why are Japanese people so continuously pro-American
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1. American          culture
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also strong in South           , Taiwan, and Southeast Asian countries
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2. democracy and economic support
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but this was 50 years ago
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3. America had a very strong                    on reforming Japanese culture after the war
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but many other countries also had this impact without such a positive view of America
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4. continuity of                  consciousness
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American power allowed Japan to                        a kind of imperial identity if Japanese society
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Japanese imperial regime continued and reconstructed itself during the Cold War era
Post-War Americanization in Tokyo