This study reveals the complex combination of cultural particularity and modern universality that underlies the reality of contemporary Japan. The work uses sou

現代日本社会を鋭く読み解いた好著『現代日本の「社会の心」-計量社会意識論』(有斐閣、2014年)の待望の英語翻訳版。

While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order

This book addresses the profound question of mental malaise in its many forms in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on: work, family and youth. The purpose

Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-ma