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• W2890767286 abstract "Reviewed by: The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan by Laura Neitzel Ann Waswo The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan. By Laura Neitzel. Portland, ME: MerwinAsia, 2016. 186 pages. Hardcover, $70.00; softcover, $28.00. In this concise and well-written account of mid- to high-rise danchi apartment blocks and housing policy in postwar Japan, Laura Neitzel provides a useful summary of previous English-language scholarship on the subject by researchers such as Christie Kiefer, Anne Imamura, Simon Partner, Richard Ronald, and myself. Even more usefully, she provides detailed accounts in chapter 1 of the thinking and accomplishments of Japanese architects, such as Nishiyama Uzō, Hamaguchi Miho, and Suzuki Shigebumi, who played key roles in “democratizing” the “feudal” Japanese home—Nishiyama by making a good case for separate eating and sleeping quarters (shokushin bunri); Hamaguchi by arguing that the kitchen should be the center of the home rather than a dingy back room and designing a stainless steel sink and other features that could make it so; and Suzuki by coming up with a space-saving design for danchi apartments that featured the soon-to-be-ubiquitous dining-kitchen (DK), which had a hard floor on which no person would choose to sleep and enabled the housewife/cook to easily join her family for meals. At the outset, in the mid-1950s, these apartments would be small two-room-plus-DK units in ferroconcrete blocks built on the outskirts of large cities under the management of the newly created Japan Housing Corporation (Nihon Jūtaku Kōdan) and intended for rental occupancy by the employed male heads of households who were seen to be contributing to Japan’s economic recovery after World War II. The apartments promised safe and modern accommodation for a married couple and perhaps one or, at most, two very young children: the new nuclear family of Japan’s hoped-for democratic future. The rents were high enough that only white-collar workers could qualify, and even then, given that demand for these units always outstripped supply, they had to win a lottery to move in. [End Page 140] Although highly dependent on the work of other scholars publishing in English, Neitzel breaks new ground in several related ways, some of them more convincing than others. The first is the chronological scope of her account, which deals with housing issues not only in the years of postwar high-speed growth (1955–1972) but also—drawing on works by Jordan Sand and Nishikawa Yūko, among others—in earlier decades of the twentieth century, as well as later in the century when danchi life began to fall out of favor with its new middle-class constituency, for whom home ownership was becoming an aspiration. A second pioneering aspect is Neitzel’s focus on the makers of housing policy at the national level—bureaucrats in the Japan Housing Corporation and elsewhere in government—who are portrayed in chapter 2, accurately enough, as enthusiastic champions of modern living and economic recovery. This is a story that needed to be told in detail, but it is not the only possible one. That Neitzel chose not to provide (another) ethnography of danchi life, as she herself states on page xxvi, is not a concern, but that she chose to give her book a title that suggests a focus on the popular “we,” not their governors, does strike me as problematic and beyond rescue from theories, such as those espoused by Svetlana Boym (pp. xv, 133), of nostalgia for something never experienced. In my view, the “we” of early postwar Japan, especially young married couples who were already living in or about to migrate to cities, had plenty of reasons to long for a better life, and danchi apartments directly appealed to them on various grounds. In other words, they were not simply manipulated by the state; they had agency in choosing their housing futures. Neitzel obscures that agency by avoiding, possibly more by accident than by design, a coherent explanation of the attraction that danchi apartments might have had for their would-be tenants..." @default.
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