Social Psychology of Modern Japan

by Munesuke Mita

Book Overview

This study reveals the complex combination of cultural particularity and modern universality that underlies the reality of contemporary Japan. The work uses sources such as popular works of art, song, best-selling books and the advice columns of newspapers to draw a striking portrait of the Japanese public. Focussing on the four main phases of modernizing and modernized Japan beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to today's postmodern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415850754
• ISBN13: 9780415850759
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"