How the Japanese Became Foreign to Themselves: The Impact of Globalization on the Private and Public Spheres in JapanLIT Verlag Münster, 2009 - 234 Seiten The question of whether Arendt's distinction of the private, public and society can be applied to the Japanese cultural context will be examined. It will be argued that repressed needs for equality, plurality and independence have made their way back through increased civil political participation and that this process is driven by the renaissance of the pre-Meiji Samurai principle of ethical individualism. |
Inhalt
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Change without purpose in Japan | 28 |
Shortcomings of globalization | 32 |
The joint tradition of East and West Individual conscientiousness as common fundament | 36 |
12 | 57 |
foreigners do not legally exist in Japan | 79 |
Social disparity and new poverty | 95 |
14 | 96 |
The dangers of psychological selfnegation | 151 |
From the preMeiji discourse of peace with nature to the postMeiji | 155 |
The waste and packaging | 161 |
The pitfalls of solar energy | 167 |
Hokkaido the lost dream | 174 |
Learning from the ecological wisdom of Germany | 180 |
23 | 181 |
The power of court justice | 186 |
The government sponsored abuse of Asian trainees | 101 |
Crimes by mentally impaired offenders | 124 |
Change | 138 |
Violent antisocial behavior among juveniles and early adults | 144 |
26 | 223 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
achieve activities Arendt become behavior Bushido centers child citizens civil comfort women concept Confucian constitution consumption countries culture democracy despite direct democracy disorder ecological economic emissions emperor energy environment equality ethical foreign gender German global warming globalization Greek guilt Hannah Hannah Arendt hikikomori Hokkaido honor human identity Ikegami individual industrial issues Japa Japan Japanese kugai Kyoto Protocol male means Meiji constitution Meiji restoration ment mental health military Ministry modern moral mother needs NGOs Nitobe NPOs nuclear OECD one’s organizations parents party peace perspective political pollution prefectural Press principle private sphere problems promote protect public sphere reduce role rule Saigo Saigo Takamori Samurai sector sense shame Shinto shogunate social society status suicide symbolic taijin kyofusho targets thinking tion Tokugawa Tokugawa shogunate Tokyo traditional values victims Western women