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the podcasts. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 244, The Summer of Rage, Part 1.

It's often said that post-war Japan is a society steeped in conformity.

One of the best-known and most controversial English language works on the subject, Carol Van Wulfrin's The Enigma of Japanese Power,

essentially describes post-war Japan as the embodiment of one of the most famous Japanese sayings.

The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

The common narrative is that this society was born out of the need to get everyone on the same page

after the Second World War, that the Japanese people came together after the war to rebuild

their society and discovered how much they could accomplish in a society grounded in harmony

rather than the divisiveness present in so many other places.

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