Exploring Japaneseness: On Japanese Enactments of Culture and Consciousness

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Today, the Japanese nation faces an identity crisis as it attempts to contend with the misfortunes endured in the nineties: a downward economic spiral, a renewed crime wave, political corruption, and the failure of the government to take bold, new steps in respose. Exploring Japaneseness, a collection of new essays from many of the leading scholars and researchers in Japanese studies, including specialists in communication, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and others, attempts to address the current state of what it means to be Japanese. The central questions of this volume are those which the nation of Japan is itself considering as it begins the third millenium; Exploring Japaneseness provides a multidisciplinary perspective on what some of the answers might be.

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RAY T. DONAHUE is Professor of Intercultural Communication at Nagoya Gakuin University in Japan.