Unmasking Japan today
Subtitle: the impact of traditional values on modern Japanese society
By: Fumie Kumagai with the assistance of Donna J. Keyser.
Contributors: Keyser, Donna J.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Social values -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Description: 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 determines the manners and customs of the Japanese people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([161]-186) and index.