Modern Japan: An Interpretive Anthology

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PART ONE: The Sense of Identity 1. “Japan’s Cultural Identity: Some Reflections on the Work of Watsuji Tetsuro”, Robert N. Bellah 2. “Japan’s World Order”, Seizaburo Sato 3. from _Suye Mura: A Japanese Village_, John F. Embree 4. from _The Chrysanthemum and the Sword_, Ruth Benedict 5. “The Social Perception of Skin Color in Japan”, Hiroshi Wagatsuma PART TWO: The Sense of the Past 6. from _Tokugawa Religion_, Robert N. Bellah 7. “Old Values and New Techniques in the Modernization of Japan”, Thomas C. Smith 8. “The Castle Town and Japan’s Modern Urbanization”, John Whitney Hall 9. “Some Recent Approaches to Japanese Nationalism”, Kenneth B. Pyle 10. "“The Significance of Nationalism in Modern Japanese Thought”, Sannosuke Matsumoto 11. from _Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan_, Irwin Scheiner PART THREE: The Sense of Urgency 12. “Achievement Orientation, Social Self-Identity, and Japanese Economic Growth”, George A. DeVos 13. from _The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa_, Yukichi Fukuzawa 14. “Inoue Kowashi (1843-1895) and the Meiji Educational System”, Joseph Pittau 15. “Freedom and the Concept of People’s Rights”, Daikichi Irokawa 16. “Characteristics of Japanese Intellectuals”, Chie Nakane 17. “Japanese Thought”, Masao Maruyama 18. “Tradition and Trauma in the Contemporary Japanese Novel”, Howard Hibbett PART FOUR: The Sense of the Future 19. “Fukuzawa, Uchimura, and Okakura: Meiji Intellectuals and Westernization”, Masao Maruyama 20. “Japan and the Ethics of Fatalism”, David W. Plath 21. “Tate No Kai and Selected Writings”, Yukio Mishima 22. ““Economic Animal’ Reconsidered”, Yoshiyuki Hagiwara