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Since the end of the 1980s, scholarly work on Japan has attempted to escape the bounds of the previous discourse that continuously described it as ‘changing Japan’, a discourse which paradoxically also focused, in the main, on the hierarchical models of this so-called vertical society. While accepting the rapid rate of social change and enduring continuities within Japan, this new wave of work... Read more
Volume 1: Postwar Japan: Setting the Scene Part 1: New Perspectives on the Past in the Present. Part 2: Japanese Democracy and the Rise of Civil Society Volume 2: Life Courses, Gender and the Self Part 1: Life Course. Part 2: Gender and the Self Volume 3: Japanese Culture Part 1: On the Traditional. Part 2: Mass Culture and Leisure Volume 4: Religion and Marginal Society Part 1: Religion. Part 2: Marginal Society: The Historically and ‘New’ Marginals
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Edited by D. P. Martinez.
