The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan (1988)

Format: Hardcover ISBN: 0525246754 Condition: Good The dust jacket is sun damaged, and there is underlining in the first half of the text. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Contents Description: Every human aspect of Japan in the late 1980s is here, from the lockstep educational process (endless facts, memory, rote) to the business world (the long day of a Tokyo "salaryman"); from government bureaucracies (the goal of Japanese career aspirations) to Japanese women (obedient wives and success-obsessed mothers). Here also are the worlds of giant banks, one-party politicians, polite criminals, large savings groups — even the strange fantasy lives of many Japanese as mirrored in the country's violent, pornographic comic books. - from the back cover