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In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both 'as they imagine themselves to be, and as they would like themselves to be.' A Japanese Mirror examines samurai and gangsters, transvestites and goddesses to paint an eloquent picture of life in Japan. This is a country long shrouded in enigma and in his compelling book, Buruma reveals a culture rich in with poetry, beauty and wonder.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Social Relativism as the Japanese Ethos: A Postulate -- 2. Belongingness -- 3. Empathy -- 4. Dependency -- 5. Occupying the Proper Place -- 6. Reciprocity -- 7. The Three Domains of Situational Interaction -- 8. Early Socialization -- 9. Selfhood -- 10. Organized Delinquency: Yakuza as a Cultural Example -- 11. Suicide -- 12. Culturally Based Moral Rehabilitation: The Naikan Method -- 13. Shinkeishitsu and Morita Therapy -- 14. Spirit Possession: The "Salvation Cult" -- 15. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Moral Values and Sentiments -- 1. Human Nature in the Japanese Myths -- 2. The Monkey Memorial Service of Japanese Primatologists -- 3. A Culture of Love and Hate -- 4. Compensative Justice and Moral Investment among Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans -- 5. Individual, Group and Seishin: Japan's Interned Cultural Debate -- 6. The Relation of Guilt toward Parents to Achievement and Arranged Marriage among the Japanese -- Part Two: Interaction, Communication, and Grouping -- 7. An Ethnography of Dinner Entertainment in Japan -- 8. Amae: A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality Structure -- 9. "Male Chauvinism" as a Manifestation of Love in Marriage -- 10. Language and Behavior in Japan: The Conceptualization of Personal Relations -- 11. Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan -- 12. Criteria of Group Formation -- 13. Skiing Cross-Culturally -- Part Three: Development and Socialization -- 14. Maternal Care and Infant Behavior in Japan and America -- 15. Who Sleeps by Whom? Parent-Child Involvement in Urban Japanese Families -- 16. Ethics and Moral Precepts Taught in Schools of Japan and the United States -- 17. Violence in the Home: Conflict between Two Principles— Maternal and Paternal -- 18. "Spirituell Education" in aJapanese Bank -- Part Four: Cultural Stress, Psychotherapies, and Resocialization -- 19. Nonmedical Healing in Contemporary Japan: A Psychiatric Study -- 20. Self-Reconstruction in Japanese Religious Psychotherapy -- 21. Japanese Attitudes toward Mental Health and Mental Health Care -- 22. Fear of Eye-to-Eye Confrontation among Neurotic Patients in Japan -- 23. Naikan Therapy -- References -- Contributors -- Index