New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2020. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.