Title: Unmasking Japan today
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Social conditions, Social life and customs, Social values, History, Brauchtum, Mœurs et coutumes, Conditions sociales, Histoire, Sociale waarden, Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai, Soziale Situation, Manners and customs, Valeurs sociales, Japan, social conditions, Japan, social life and customs
Places: Japan
Time periods: 20th century, 1945-
LC classification: HN723.5 .K756 1996