The City as Subject, 13
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In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing industrial production," distinguished himself…
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Osaka became an industrial giant during the Meiji period, remaining one of the world’s fastest-growing cities throughout the later decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. The city outgrew Tokyo in both population and industrial production for a brief period during the 1930s. This was a time when social displacement, horrendous public health and housing failings, and labor unrest threatened communal wellbeing. The city responded with some of the most innovative social policies of the era, especially under the leadership of Mayor Seki Hajime. As Hanes uncovers, Seki used his training as a social economist to…
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