The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan

Tasker, Peter

ISBN 10: 0525246754 / ISBN 13: 9780525246756

Published by Dutton Adult, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525246754
• ISBN 13: 9780525246756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition
  • Japan
  • Adventure/Travel

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Synopsis

Seven years' residence in Japan has provided the author with the bases for a descriptive study of the values and behavior of contemporary Japan's various individual types, groups, and classes

Reviews

$21.95. soc sci An accurate understanding of Japan is a matter of increasing urgency for all Americans, and this popular introduction by a well-informed British writer may be the best place to start. In a crisp style peppered with pungent phrases, Tasker skillfully probes Japanese society, politics, and the economy. Well-grounded in history and rich in revealing anecdotes, his book provides shrewd insights into the often contradictory essences of contemporary Japan. Well-balanced and fair-minded, the work avoids gross generalizations or sensationalism. It is more accessible to the general reader than Edwin Reischauer's The Japanese ( LJ 5/1/77) and deeper than Robert Christopher's The Japanese Mind ( LJ 4/15/83). Steven I. Levine, Duke Univ., Durham, N.C.
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