Introduction to Japanese Society

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• patio11 · Mar 17, 2010 · Recommends

  …that my assumptions are out of date? That sort of implies that Japanese were once lockstep conformists. I could take issue with that, at length, but instead I'll refer you to Sugimoto's textbook "An Introduction To Japanese Society". P.S. One of my favorite Japanese engineers swears blind that the iPod is just a Walkman with a Game Boy in it. I think that is almost as unfair as "Japan just improves on technologies that were invented…

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• gknoy · Nov 7, 2014 · Recommends

  …surprised me much -- but I am blown away by the depths of details he's included here. I've only finished the section on the salaryman relationship, and it's phenomenal reading. Edit: the link to "An Introduction to Japanese Society" seems to be broken. Try this if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Japanese-Society-Yoshio-S...

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• patio11 · Nov 11, 2016 · Recommends

  …elsewhere, a better approach to take is "Japan is often described as a monocultural country but it is not." This is true, novel, and gives you the opportunity to drop e.g. a citation for Sugitomo's An Introduction to Japanese Society, which is a really excellent academic text, or Making Common Sense of Japan, which is sadly out of print but a fantastic book qua book. (30 second example: Japan has large ethnic minorities like e.g.…

• azernik · Jan 19, 2015 · Mentions

  …out on a full 10-inch screen (which need to be used on several books for the investment to amortize out correctly). Layout/markup: for well-done academic volumes (using Google Play and Sugimoto's "An Introduction to Japanese Society" as my reference piece) things like footnotes are actually a better experience than print - you tap a blue-highlighted superscript, and you get a model that pops up inline for you to read and then swipe…

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