Unmasking Japan Today

The Impact of Traditional Values on Modern Japanese Society

Donna Keyser author Fumie Kumagai author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:16th Feb '96

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This book, the product of a joint project between a Japanese and an American scholar, successfully addresses the issues important to Americans and others interested in contemporary Japan.

Modern-day Japan has proven to be a complex nation struggling to combine traditional attitudes with the political and social demands of an advanced industrialized economy.

Modern-day Japan has proven to be a complex nation struggling to combine traditional attitudes with the political and social demands of an advanced industrialized economy. This struggle to balance the past with the present has had a significant impact on the structure of human relations in contemporary Japan, particularly in the areas of the family and family dynamics, lifestyles, the education of children, the socialization of youth, women in the workplace, and the elderly. In all cases, we find a dual structure where traditional values and modern practices coexist. Based on a dual perspective that incorporates modern Western capitalism into Japan's traditional agrarian society, this book reveals a complex of cultural assumptions that determine the manners and customs of the Japanese peo

ISBN: 9780275951443

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 510g

208 pages