The Japanese Today
by Reischauer, Edwin O.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-10-01
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary
To reflect America's current understanding of and attitudes toward Japan, the author re-examines Japanese society, personality, government, politics, business organization, and relations with the outside world
Table of Contents
| The Setting | |
| The Land | |
| Agriculture and Natural Resources | |
| Isolation | |
| Historical Background | |
| Early Japan | |
| Feudalism | |
| Centralized Feudalism | |
| The Meiji Restoration | |
| The Constitutional System | |
| The Militarist Reaction | |
| The Occupation Reforms | |
| Post-Occupation Japan | |
| Society | |
| Diversity and Change | |
| The Group | |
| Relativism | |
| Hierarchy | |
| The Individual | |
| Women 18. Education | |
| Religion | |
| Mass Culture | |
| Government and Politics | |
| The Political Heritage | |
| The Emperor | |
| The Diet | |
| Other Organs of Government | |
| Elections | |
| Political Parties | |
| The Decision-Making Process | |
| Issues | |
| Political Style | |
| Business | |
| The Premodern Background | |
| The Prewar Economy | |
| The Postwar Economy | |
| The Employment System | |
| Business Organization | |
| Japan and the World | |
| The Prewar Record | |
| Neutrality versus Alignment | |
| Trade and Economic Dependence | |
| Language | |
| Uniqueness and Internationalism | |
| Japan Today | |
| Suggested Reading | |
| Index | |
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