Japan and the West: The Perception Gap (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Nagatani, Keizo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138324043 ISBN 13: 9781138324046

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book first published in 1998 containes the work of Six members of the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), an area unit of the Institute for Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. They were motivated by the fact that after over a century of cultural, economic and political interaction between the two regions, mutual misunderstandings or perception gaps remain deep and wide and by the belief that highlighting these differences, as they manifest in diverse areas and manners, might potentially contribute to a better understanding, if not an immediate narrowing, of the gaps. The six essays that follow are the products of such group efforts. Three authors are Westerners and the remaining three are Japanese by origin. By speciality, they represent modern Japanese literature, cultural anthropology, art history, political science, economics and geography.

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Keizo Nagatani

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138324043
• ISBN 13: 9781138324046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 189
• Editor: Edgington David W.