Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream

By Kenneth G. Henshall

Book Overview

Japan remains one of the most intriguing yet least understood nations. In a much needed, balanced and comprehensive analysis, among other remarkable revelations, this book presents for the first time a vital key to understanding the organisation of Japan's society and the behaviour of its people. The Japanese are not driven by a universal morality based on Good and Evil, but by broad aesthetic concepts based on Pure and Impure. What they include as 'impure' will surprise many readers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333744780
• ISBN13: 9780333744789
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"