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'Japanese culture': an overview / Yoshio Sugimoto -- Concepts of Japan, Japanese culture and the Japanese / Harumi Befu -- Japan's emic conceptions / Takami Kuwayama -- Language / Hugh Clarke -- Family culture / Anne E. Imamura -- School culture / Kaori H. Okano -- Work culture / Ross Mouer -- Technological culture / Morris Low -- Religious culture / Stephen Covell -- Political culture / Takashi Inoguchi -- Buraku culture / Hideo Aoki -- Literary culture / Toshiko Ellis -- Popular leisure / Sepp Linhart -- Manga, anime, and visual art culture / Craig Norris -- Music culture / Junko Kitagawa -- Housing culture / Ann Waswo -- Food culture / Naomichi Ishige -- Sports culture / Miho Koishihara -- Globalisation and cultural nationalism / Takashi Inoguchi -- Exporting Japan's culture : from management style to manga / Ross Mouer and Craig Norris

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural transformation that took place over the course of the twentieth century, and paints a picture of a nation rich in cultural diversity. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars in the field, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture is an authoritative introduction to this subject.

This article provides a broad overview of the changing models of Japanese society in postwar years, focusing on how the social science paradigm and popular representations of Japan have shifted with the transformation of the nation's mega-social structures. The analysis identifies three major periods and concentrates on the dramatic switch of academic orientation from the monocultural to the multicultural model. The discussion also shows how the dominant popular images of Japan around the world have changed from work culture to pop culture, coinciding with the shift in the nation's socioeconomic structure from industrial to cultural capitalism. Finally, the article demonstrates the ways in which Japan's social scientists are located on the periphery of the world system of social science knowledge and the dilemmas they face in their attempts to produce multicultural social sciences.

This article attempts to examine Nihonjinron, the popular essentialist genre in Japan, which purports to analyse Japan's quintessence and cultural core by using three concepts - nationality, ethnicity and culture - synonymously. The focus of the paper will be placed on: (1) the widespread political bases of Nihonjinron and its internal divisions; (2) its changing features in the face of globalization; (3) the possible productive uses of Nihonjinron at both conceptual and theoretical levels; and (4) the dilemma of inter-societal and intra-societal cultural relativism, which the Nihonjinron debate has highlighted. The paper presents an outline of an inductive, pluralistic, multicultural model of analysis as a possible alternative.

Examines Nihonjinron (theories of the Japanese), the popular essentialist genre in Japan, that purports to analyze Japan's quintessence & cultural core by using three concepts -- nationality, ethnicity, & culture -- synonymously. Focus is on (1) the widespread political bases of Nihonjinron & its internal divisions; (2) its changing features in the face of globalization; (3) the possible productive uses of Nihonjinron at both conceptual & theoretical levels; & (4) the dilemma of intersocietal & intrasocietal cultural relativism, which the Nihonjinron debate has highlighted. An inductive, pluralistic, multicultural model of analysis is outlined as a possible alternative. 51 References. Adapted from the source document.

The paper examines in quantitative terms how powerful such Marxian concepts as the amount and rate of surplus value and the size of the industrial reserve army are in accounting for levels of industrial turbulence. On the basis of data drawn from post-war Japan from 1952 to 1960, a series of statistical analyses has been performed to investigate relationships between the Marxian variables and various types of labor disturbance. None of these investigations has established strong connections between the former and the latter. Further inquiry has demonstrated that there is a partial convergence between the Marxian concepts of exploitation and the Tocquevillian concepts of improvement of social conditions.

"Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan's military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis. This book identifies variations amongst Japanese Studies academic communities in the Asia-Pacific and examines the extent to which relatively autonomous scholarship, intellectual approach or theories exist in the region. It also evaluates how studies on Japan in the region contribute to global Japanese Studies and explores their potential for formulating concrete strategies to unsettle Eurocentric dominance of the discipline."--Provided by publisher

Introduction. Democracy and Japan / Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto -- The State. Combining Democracy With Growth: The Search for a Formula / Doug McEachern -- Beyond Economism: Japan in a State of Transition / Gavan McCormack -- Society. The Manipulative Bases of 'Consensus' in Japan / Yoshio Sugimoto -- Sources of Conflict in the 'Information Society' / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Education. Educational Democracy Versus State Control / Yamazumi Masami -- Labour. Class Struggle in Postwar Japan / Muto Ichiyo -- The Reality of Enterprise Unionism / Kawanishi Hirosuke -- Citizen's Movements. Democracy Derailed: Citizens' Movements in Historical Perspective / Beverley Smith -- Women. Women in the Jew Japanese State / Sandra Buckley and Vera Mackie -- Human Rights. Crime, Confession, and Control / Gavan McCormack -- Forced to Confess / Igarashi Futaba -- Science. Science, Morality and the State / Atuhiro Sibatani -- Personal Retrospective. The Crisis of Postwar Democracy / Hidaka Rokuro.