Modern Japan: An Interpretive Anthology

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