Waste : consuming postwar Japan /

Siniawer, Eiko Maruko,

Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, - x, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First published 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-387) 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"--

9781501725845 9781501725852 9781501725869

2018000104

HC465.C6 / S745 2018

363.7280952