CONSTRUCTS FOR UNDERSTANDING JAPAN
Japanese Studies
General Editor: Yoshio Sugimoto
Images of Japanese Society: Ross E. Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto
An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan: Shunsuke Tsurumi
A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: Shunsuke Tsurumi
Beyond Computopia: Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Constructs for Understanding Japan: Yoshio Sugimoto and
Ross E. Mouer
Forthcoming
Japanese Models of Conflict Resolution: S. N. Eisenstadt and
E. Ben-Ari
Enterprise Unionism in Japan: Hirosuke Kawanishi
Group Psychology of the Japanese in Wartime: Toshio Iritani
CONSTRUCTS FOR UNDERSTANDING JAPAN
edited by
Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross E. Mouer
First published in 1989
by Kegan Paul International Limited
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Contents
List of Abbreviations
| ASC | Asahi Shinbun, morning edition |
| ASY | Asahi Shinbun, evening edition |
| JT | The Japan Times |
| MSC | Mainichi Shinbun, morning edition |
| MSY | Mainichi Shinbun, evening edition |
| NKSC | Nihon Keizai Shinbun, morning edition |
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on the Editors
SUGIMOTO, Yoshio: Professor of Sociology and Dean of Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Author of Popular Disturbance in Postwar Japan (Asian Research Service, 1981), and Ch-kanri rett Nippon (The ultra-controlled Japanese archipelago) (Kbunsha, 1983) and co-editor of Democracy in Contemporary Japan (Hale and Iremonger/M. E. Sharpe, 1986) and The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
MOUER, Ross E.: Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Monash University, Melbourne. Co-author of Labor Policy in Japan (Japanese Studies Centre, 1986) and co-editor of Japans Impact on the World (Japanese Studies Association of Australia, 1984).
The editors co-authored Images of Japanese Society (Kegan Paul International, 1986) and Nihonjin wa Nihon-teki ka (Arguments about the nature of Japanese society) (Ty Keizai Shinp-sha, 1982) and co-edited Kojin Kanjin Nihonjin (Individual self-interests and interpersonal relations in Japanese society) (Gakuy Shob, 1987), and Nihonjinron ni kansuru 12-sh (Twelve chapters on theories of Japanese society) (Gakuy Shob, 1983).
Notes on the Contributors
ATSUMI, Reiko: Senior Lecturer, School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
BEFU, Harumi: Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Author of Japan: an Anthropological Introduction (Chandler, 1971) and Ideorogii to shite no Nihon bunka-ron (Theories on Japanese culture as ideology) (Shis no Kagakusha, 1987).
KAWAMURA, Nozomu: Professor of Sociology at Tokyo Metropolitan University. Author of Nihon shakaigaku-shi kenky (A historical study of Japanese sociological theories) (Ningen no Kagaku-sha, 2 vols, 1973/75), Nihon bunka-ron no shhen (On theories of Japanese culture) (Ningen no Kagaku-sha, 1982), and Chishiki shakaigaku no shos (Aspects of the sociology of knowledge) (Shiraishi Shoten, 1987).
KOIKE, Kazuo: Professor of Management at Hsei University, Tokyo. Author of Understanding Industrial Relations in Japan (Macmillan, 1988), Shokuba no rd kumiai to sanka (Labour unions and their participation in firms) (Ty Keizai Shinp-sha, 1977), and Nihon no jukuren (Skill formation in Japan) (Yhikaku, 1981).
LEVINE, Solomon B.: Professor of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin. Author of Industrial Relations in Postwar Japan (University of Illinois Press, 1958). Co-author of Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development (Princeton University Press, 1980). Co-editor of Workers and Employers in Japan (Princeton University Press, 1974).
NEUSTUPN, J. V.: Professor of Japanese Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Author of Post-Structural Approaches to Language (University of Tokyo Press, 1978), Gaikokujin to no komunikeishon (Communicating with foreigners) (Iwanami Shoten, 1981), and Communicating with the Japanese (The Japan Times, 1987).
PHARR, Susan J.: Professor of Government at Harvard University. Author of Political Women in Japan (University of California Press, 1981).
PLATH, David W.: Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois. Author of The After Hours (University of California Press, 1964). Co-author of Sensei and His People (University of California Press, 1969). Editor of Aware of Utopia (University of Illinois Press, 1971), Adult Episodes in Japan (Brill, 1975), Work and Lifecourse in Japan (State University of New York Press, 1983).
SONE, Yasunori: Professor of Political Science at Kei University, Tokyo. Author of Kettei no seiji keizaigaku (Political economics of decision-making) (Yhikaku, 1984). Co-author of Manj itch to tasketsu (Unanimous consensus and majority rule) (Nihon Keizai Shinbun-sha, 1980), and co-editor of Sekai seiji no naka no Nihon seiji (Japan in world politics) (Yhikaku, 1983).
A Note on Japanese Names
The Japanese convention that family name precedes personal name is generally followed in this book. However, those Japanese who either live in the West or have chosen to adopt the opposite (Western) convention of personal name followed by family name in their writings in English are identified accordingly. In the table of contents, for example, Atsumi, Befu and Sugimoto are listed in Western order, but all other Japanese names are in Japanese order, surname first. Uncertainty may be resolved by reference to the Notes on Contributors and the index, where all persons named in the text are listed in alphabetical order according to their family names.
