Download or read book Rebuilding Urban Japan After 1945 written by Jeffrey Diefendorf and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to examine the reconstruction of Japan's bombed cities after World War II. Five case studies (of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Okinawa, and Nagaoka) are framed by broader essays on the evolution of Japanese planning and architecture, Japan's urban policies in Manchuria and comparisons between Japanese and European reconstruction.