Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream

by Kenneth G. Henshall

Book Overview

Japan remains one of the most intriguing yet least understood nations. In a much needed, balanced and comprehensive analysis, among other remarkable revelations, this book presents for the first time a vital key to understanding the organisation of Japan's society and the behaviour of its people. The Japanese are not driven by a universal morality based on Good and Evil, but by broad aesthetic concepts based on Pure and Impure. What they include as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312221924
• ISBN13: 9780312221928
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"