| Aspects
of Japanese Culture & Society: An Anthropologist's View |
Written by Ito Abito of Tokyo University: the
plurality of Japanese culture; theories of Japanese culture; the
Japanese & mono; the family & ie; Japanese awareness of history;
commercial dealings & trust; the traditional town; form & technique;
learning & education; systems & organizations & the human
being |
| Impact
of Railways on Japanese Society & Culture |
Theme of Japan Railway & Transport Review No.
13 (Sept. 1997) |
| Is
Amae the Key to Understanding Japanese Culture? |
An essay by Herman W. Smith & Takako Nomi
for Electronic Journal of Sociology (4/2000) |
| Japan File |
Articles on Japanese society & culture
from Kansai Time Out, a magazine for West Japan |
| Tokyo
on One Cliché a Day |
"Dispatches from the front lines of travel," by
SethStevenson for Slate (Oct. 2003) |
| Viking
Phoenix Web Page: Japan, Incorporated |
Survey of Japan, Inc., "the complex interweaving
of all aspects of Japanese society, including family, business, religion,
government, education, the imperial family & powerful extra-governmental
organizations" |
| Japan's
New Attitude |
An Asiaweek special report (10/20/2000)
on Japan's emerging new society |
| Key
Aspects of Japan |
(in English & Japanese) Online & updated
version of Traditional Japanese Culture & Modern Japan by
Sugiura Yoichi & John K. Gillespie: the culture, society & spiritual
aspects of traditional & modern Japan |
| Life
in Japan |
Stories on popular culture, travel & adventure,
the environment, & gourmet living in The Japan Times online |
| National
Museum of Ethnology |
Information on the museum, its exhibitions & the
Japan Center for Area Studies; anthropology newsletter; research
activities; virtual tour |
| Public
Attitudes to Aid in Norway and Japan |
M. Boas's 2002 study (Centre for Development
and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo) (PDF format) |
| Rational
Japanese: A Guide to Understanding Ordinary Japanese Behavior |
"an on-line hypertext book that presents
an unconventional analysis of Japanese thinking & behavior, as
well as cases illustrating points made in the analysis" |
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