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Japan and the West: The Perception Gap book cover

1st Edition

Japan and the West: The Perception Gap

By Keizo Nagatani, David W. Edgington Copyright 1998
205 Pages
by Routledge

205 Pages
by Routledge

205 Pages
by Routledge
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This book first published in 1998 containes the work of Six members of the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), an area unit of the Institute for Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. They were motivated by the fact that after over a century of cultural, economic and political interaction between the two regions, mutual misunderstandings or perception gaps remain deep and wide and... Read more

1. Perception Gaps: An Introduction, Keizo Nagatani, Akio Tanaka.  2. Images of Western and Japanese Art: Embodiment of Imagination and Pseudo-Reality in Nanban Art, Moritaka Matsumoto. 3. Japanese Perceptions of Westerners in Modern Fiction, Kinya Tsuruta.  4. ‘Kramer vs Kramer’ vs Suspense Theatre: The Perception Gap in Constructions of Self, Gender and Family, Millie Creighton.  5. Business and Government Relations in Canada and Japan: The ‘Homestead’ and the ‘Public Vessel’ , Lonny E. Carlile. 6. Understanding Japanese Investment Behaviour; An Organisational Approach to Social Investment, Keizo Nagatani.   7. The Search for Paradise: Japanese Property Investors in North America, David W. Edgington.  8. Conclusion: The Importance of Perception Gaps, Keizo Nagatani, David W. Edgington.

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Keizo Nagatani

’...the editors succeed in bringing together such divergent studies into a cohesive volume...it allows readers to explore areas beyond their normal specialized fields.’ Pacific Affairs
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