Japanese society

By:

Nakane, Chie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: "Middlesex, Eng."; 162p.; 0Description: 162pSubject(s):

Japan social conditions

DDC classification:

305.8956 NAK

Summary: Why do the Japanese always go for holidays in groups? Does a professor ever become a politician in Japan? Do the Japanese experience what we call 'family life'? What motivates the ordinary Japanese man-in-the street? Professor Nakane, writing with an intimate knowledge of her own people provides the answers in her fascinating book. Japanese society, although capitalist and industrialized, runs along very different lines from ours. Analysing the structure of the society, rather than explaining it in cultural or historicalc terms, she shows how the vertical principles of rank and hierarchy dominate all relationships - professional, personal, industrial, political - whatever the environment. As Professor Nakane points out, modern Japan's progress is founded, ironically, on social patterns which existed centuries ago.

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Why do the Japanese always go for holidays in groups? Does a professor ever become a politician in Japan? Do the Japanese experience what we call 'family life'? What motivates the ordinary Japanese man-in-the street?

Professor Nakane, writing with an intimate knowledge of her own people provides the answers in her fascinating book. Japanese society, although capitalist and industrialized, runs along very different lines from ours. Analysing the structure of the society, rather than explaining it in cultural or historicalc terms, she shows how the vertical principles of rank and hierarchy dominate all

relationships - professional, personal, industrial, political - whatever the environment. As Professor Nakane points out, modern Japan's progress is founded, ironically, on social patterns which existed centuries ago.

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