Around 1970, between Kashima and Tokyo, the Narita Airport was under construction. Local farmers refused to sell their land and confronted the riot police sent to evict them. Through these symbolic sites of Japan’s modernization, _Kashima Paradise_ offers a sociological portrait of a nation and reveals how ancestral traditions were exploited by capitalism to accelerate social and political chan...
Around 1970, between Kashima and Tokyo, the Narita Airport was under construction. Local farmers refused to sell their land and confronted the riot police sent to evict them. Through these symbolic sites of Japan’s modernization, _Kashima Paradise_ offers a sociological portrait of a nation and reveals how ancestral traditions were exploited by capitalism to accelerate social and political chan...