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Social Theory and Japanese Experience

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 Post-war Japan: Shunsuke Tsurumi

Beyond Computopia: Tessa Morris-Suzuki Constructs for Understanding Japan: Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross E. Mouer

Japanese Models of Conflict Resolution: S. N. Eisenstadt and Eyal Ben-Ari

Changing Japanese Suburbia: Eyal Ben-Ari

The Rise of the Japanese Corporate System: Koji Matsumoto

Science, Technology and Society in Post-war Japan: Shigeru Nakayama

Group Psychology of the Japanese in Wartime: Toshio Iritani

Enterprise Unionism in Japan: Hirosuke Kawanishi

Social Psychology of Modem Japan: Munesuke Mita

The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Minoru Kawada

Social Stratification in Contemporary Japan: Kenji Kosaka

Sociology and Society of Japan: Nozomu Kawamura

Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language: John C. Maher and Gaynor Macdonald

Difference and Modernity: Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society: John Clammer

Kanji Politics: Nanette Gottlieb

Migrant Workers in Japan: Hiroshi Komai

Japanese Encounters with Postmodemity:

Johann P. Arnason and Yoshio Sugimoto

Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film: Mick Broderick

Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan: Wolfgang Herbert

Social Theory and Japanese Experience: Johann P. Arnason

First published in 1997 by
Kegan Paul International

This edition first published in 2010 by
Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an in forma business

Johann P. Arnason 1997

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 10: 0-7103-0485-4 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-7103-0485-8 (hbk)

Publishers Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. The publisher has made every effort to contact original copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace.

For Isao Onoda and Yasuo Ishii with thanks for a very effective introduction to Japan

Contents

Japanese names are given in the proper order (family name first and given name second), except for references where they follow Western conventions. Because of technical problems (and in agreement with the publisher), I have dispensed with the macrons frequently used to indicate long vowels in Japanese words; this is unlikely to cause any misunderstandings.

The following abbreviations are used in the footnotes.

AA	Acta Asiatica
AHR	American Historical Review
AJS	American Journal of Sociology
ASR	American Sociological Review
BEFEO	Bulletin de lEcole Franaise de VExtrme-Orient
BJOAF	Bochumer Jahrbuch filr Ostasienforschung
BJS	British Journal of Sociology
CSSH	Comparative Studies in Society and History
HJAS	Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
JAS	Journal of Asiatic Studies
JJRS	Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
JJS	Journal of Japanese Studies
MN	Monumenta Nipponica
OE	Oriens Extremus
TASJ	Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan

This book is addressed to two kinds of readers: to social theorists, on the grounds that the Japanese experience is or should be of particular relevance to their problems, and to scholars working on Japanese history, culture and society, in the hope that the theoretical interpretations outlined below may be of some interest to them. Some parts of the discussion will seem less relevant to one side than to the other, but I have tried to strike a viable balance between them.

It should be noted that the book was written by an outsider to Japanese studies; I do not read Japanese, and the work on this project has certainly made me more conscious of the linguistic barrier. But in view of the limited contact between social theory and Japanese studies, there is work to be done on both sides, and theoretical contributions will be more useful if they are linked to comparative history. The present attempt to follow that line of inquiry builds on earlier publications, much more limited in scope but similar in intent. My interest in Japan goes back a long time, and I hope to be able to pursue it further.

This book has been in the making for a long time, and it is impossible to name all those who have been of help in one way or another. Thanks are due, first and foremost, to the Japan specialists who have shown interest in my project, especially to Yoshio Sugimoto. without whose encouragement the book would hardly have taken shape, and to Herman Ooms, whose constructive response to an early attempt was particularly welcome.

Among theorists with interests in the same area, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt has been the most important discussion partner. I am grateful for having had access to his work in progress; what I have learnt from it, and where my approach differs from his, will become clearer as the argument unfolds.

A sabbatical spent in Japan in 1991-92 was essential to further work on the book. In that connection, thanks are due to La Trobe University and Tokyo Metropolitan University; to Kawamura Nozomu, whose aid in organizing my stay in Japan was invaluable; and to Kato Tetsuro, Mishima Kenichi, and Tokunaga Makoto, who helped in various ways.

I also wish to thank La Trobe University and the Australian Research Council for a research grant which enabled me to devote more time to the book, and the Japan Foundation for publication assistance; I am grateful to Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit for her support in that connection. Special thanks are due to Kaori OConnor for her editorial patience and flexibility.

Colleagues in the School of Sociology and Anthropology at La Trobe University, as well as the staff of the Borchardt Library, have been helpful in various ways. I wish to thank Bronwyn Bardsley, Merle Parker, Beth Robertson and Elaine Young for their patient and efficient processing of an old-fashioned manuscript.

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