1st Edition
Japanese Encounters The Structure and Dynamics of Cultural Frames
Chapter Two – From Mothering to Othering: Organization and Nap Time in a Japanese Preschool
Chapter Three – The Gambaru Complex: Learning to Overcome Obstacles through Individual and Collective Action
Chapter Four – Teachers' Meetings: Information, Quality Control and Decisions
Chapter Five – A Sports Day in Suburban Japan: Leisure, artificial Communities and the Creation of Locality
Chapter Six – Posing, Posturing and Photographic Presences: A Rite of Passage in a Japanese Commuter Village
Chapter Seven – Sake and Spare Time: Management and Imbibement in Japanese Business Firms
Chapter Eight – "Not-Precisely-Work": Golf, Entertainment and Drinking Among Japanese Business Executives in Singapore
Chapter Nine – Coincident Events of Remembrance, Coexisting Spaces of Memory: The Annual Memorial Rites at Yasukuni Shrine.
Chapter Ten – Public Events and Japanese the Self-Defense Forces: Aesthetics, Ritual Density and the Normalization of Military Violence
Chapter Eleven – Power, Play and Transformation
Biography
Eyal Ben-Ari is Chairman of the Center for Society, Security and Peace in Memory of Dan Shomron at Kinneret Academic College, Israel
