Dedication
Acknowledgements
SECTION 1: Social Sciences
Japan as No.'X '
Some Problems Concerning Hasekura Tsunenega's Mission
Japan and South-East Asia in Modern History
Japan Italy Germany and the Anti-Comintern Pact
Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Meiji Constitution 1889
A Cartel Model of Japanese Politics
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Japan as Occupying Power: The Revision of History
Kita Ikki and Japanese Fascism
Relations Between the Japanese Government and the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Historical Background
New Social Historical Research Methods into the History of Modern
Computer Interpersonal Communication and Education in Japan
The Survival of the Abacus in Modem Japan
The Armour of Honorific Speech: Some Lateral Thinking about keigo
Anthropology and Japanese Studies
Empirical Status of Nihanjinron: How Real is the Myth
Changing Images: Japan and the Ainu as Perceived by Europe
Rethinking the Purposes of Japanese Peasant Studies
Rethinking Western Notions of Japanese Women: Some Aspects of Female Japanese Reality Versus Stereotypes about Japanese Women
Sociological Reflections on Social Structure From a Point of View of an Aging Society
The Aging of Japanese Society: Consequences and Reactions
Consumption and Consumerism in Japan Being in the Group: Spacio-temporal Place in Japanese Social Organization
New Japanese Mythologies: Faltering Discipline and the Ailing Housewife in Japan
The Concept of yume (Dreams) in Japanese Daily Life
Old and New Sources of Japanese Progress
Studying Material Culture as a Means to Understanding Japan
SECTION 2: Ideology and Thought
Rethinking the Study of Religion in Japan
The Popular Beliefs of Contemporary Japan
In Search of a New Interpretation of Ascetic Experiences
Is there a Religion called shinto
Upper-Class Heian Society and Japanese Folk Religion
The Meaning of Ideology in Modern Japan
'Restoration'
'Emperor'
'Diet'
'Prefecture' or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages
Rethinking Tokugawa Thought
Ideology and Cultural Arguments of Japan's Distinctiveness: The Case of Japan's Work Ethic
The Vicissitudes of Bushido
Some Aspects of Inari
the God of Inari in Kyoto
The Religious Background of the Deification of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Anthropological Aspects of the Japanese Meal: Tradition
Internationalization and Aesthetics
How Japanese is Japan in the 1980s
Notes
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