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SUMMARY: Welcome to Washington Heights: American Towns and Americanization 
 in Occupied Japan
DESCRIPTION: Abstract: From the 1950s\, Japanese are said to have embraced 
 the so-called “bright life”—that is\, a middle class social ideal inspired 
 by the bright lives led by their American occupiers. As the story’s been to
 ld up to now\, the “bright life” was enshrined in the American magazines\, 
 movies\, and TV programs that flooded Japan during […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p><p>From the 
 1950s\, Japanese are said to have embraced the so-called “bright life”—that
  is\, a middle class social ideal inspired by the bright lives led by their
  American occupiers. As the story’s been told up to now\, the “bright life”
  was enshrined in the American magazines\, movies\, and TV programs that fl
 ooded Japan during and after the Occupation. Yet\, in actuality\, American 
 middle class life also shone brightly within Japan itself\, in places calle
 d Lincoln Center\, Grant Heights\, and Washington Heights. These were commu
 nities of “dependent housing” for American troops and their families. Yet\,
  these were communities fashioned not just as comfortable “America towns” f
 or the American occupiers\, as one might imagine\, but as the “forerunner” 
 to a “a new way of living for the Japanese people” who they were occupying.
  The surprising story of these communities and their place in postwar Japan
 ese life is the subject of this presentation.</p><p><strong>About the Speak
 er:</strong><br /><a href="https://cjr.sites.olt.ubc.ca/welcome-to-washingt
 on-heights-american-towns-and-americanization-in-occupied-japan/hanes/" rel
 ="attachment wp-att-4272"><img class="alignright wp-image-4272" src="https:
 //cjr.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2016/12/Hanes-300x225.jpeg" alt="hanes" width=
 "194" height="145" /></a></p><p>Jeff Hanes teaches modern Japanese history 
 at the University of Oregon\, where he also directs the Center for Asian an
 d Pacific Studies. He is the author of CITY AS SUBJECT: SEKI HAJIME AND THE
  REINVENTION OF MODERN OSAKA as well as numerous articles on modern urban J
 apan. His current project explores the history of family housing for the Am
 erican military during and after the Occupation.</p><h2><a href="https://cj
 r.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2016/12/DrJeffHanes.pdf">Event poster</a></h2>
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