Understanding the Japanese: Insight into Japanese Culture and Thinking

By Gary Judge

What really is the Japanese character?This is a book of acute observations, facts and figures, with servings of warm and amusing personal encounters.Not many countries have influenced the world with as many cool innovations and art forms as Japan has. Most of us can point out something in our lives which is "Japanese." And yet stepping onto Japanese soil makes many of us feel we have arrived on another planet. After a month there, we have only encountered more riddles and mysteries. Despite their best intentions, the Japanese often cannot adequately explain their own culture. What is odd for us is often so normal for them that it doesn't require consideration!Gary Judge was confronted by many such enigmas when he arrived in Tokyo 24 years ago. He set about finding what is really going on in the Japanese psyche.This is a book for people who would like a deeper insight into how the Japanese tick, what they are thinking and how they got to be so ... Japanese. (includes 60 color photographs and images)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466492198
• ISBN13: 9781466492196
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"