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Author Siniawer, Eiko Maruko, author.

Title Waste : consuming postwar Japan / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (411 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject 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-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Siniawer, Eiko Maruko. Waste : consuming postwar Japan. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018 411 pages 9781501725869 (DLC) 2018000993
ISBN 9781501725869
9781501725852 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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