An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological approach, the text examines the multifaceted nature of contemporary Japanese society with chapters covering …
An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological approach, the text examines the multifaceted nature of contemporary Japanese society with chapters covering …
An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological approach, the text examines the multifaceted nature of contemporary Japanese society with chapters covering …
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Rethinking 'Eurocentrism' and area studies: Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific -- 2 Studying Japan as 'the other': a short history of Japanese Studies and its future -- 3 Jap…
"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 an…
An Introduction to Japanese Society challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture.
An Introduction to Japanese Society challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture.
Essential reading for students of Japanese society, An Introduction to Japanese Society now enters its third edition. Here, internationally renowned scholar, Yoshio Sugimoto, writes a sophisticated, yet highly readable and lucid text, using both English and Japanese sources to u…