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Unmasking Japan today : the impact of traditional values on modern Japanese society

Author: Fumie Kumagai; Donna J Keyser
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.
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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  Read more...
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Kumagai, Fumie.
Unmasking Japan today.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996
(OCoLC)654694368
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fumie Kumagai; Donna J Keyser
ISBN: 0275951448 9780275951443
OCLC Number: 32780035
Description: xi, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. The Japanese family--Change and continuity. Changes in the Japanese family system --
Popular culture/lifestyles of the Japanese family --
Emerging family problems. Pt. II. Education and youth. The Japanese educational system --
Japanese youth today. Pt. III. Women and labor force participation. The changing status of women --
Japanese women in the workforce. Pt. IV. The graying of Japan. Aging as a sociocultural process --
The economics of aging --
The impact of aging on family relations.
Responsibility: Fumie Kumagai with the assistance of Donna J. Keyser.

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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.

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