The Peasant Soul Of Japan (english And Japanese Edition)

A book concerning the Japanese identity in which the author theorizes that the national mentality is a dichotomy between the "equestrian" and the "peasant". He draws on Japanese and European classical literature, on the history of warfare and on studies of law and business management. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Tokyo Summit of 1979: An event which sheds light on the nature of the Japanese....Pages 3-12 The Peasant Spirit in War: The Agrarian and Equestrian Mentalities....Pages 13-24 The Japanese Feeling of Security: Ancestral Roots. The Soil....Pages 25-32 The Japanese Feeling of Security: Leadership and Security....Pages 33-39 The spirit of harmony as the cause of conflict....Pages 40-57 Societies in which orders are effective; Societies in which they are not....Pages 58-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 The Mechanism of the Envy Society....Pages 71-83 ‘Law’ and ‘Order’ in an Agrarian Society....Pages 84-99 The Politics of Envy....Pages 100-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 The Emperor as the Chief High Priest of Agrarian Ceremonies....Pages 115-124 The Civil War Period and the Foresight of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the First of the Tokugawa Shōguns....Pages 125-143 The Meaning of the Meiji Restoration and the History of the Showa Period....Pages 144-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 The Spirit of Commerce and its Effect on the Japanese....Pages 155-173 The World Turns Towards an Agrarian Ideology....Pages 174-181 Conclusion....Pages 182-184 Back Matter....Pages 185-197 This volume focuses on Japan over the last one hundred years, with special emphasis on the twentieth century and the contemporary period. Chapters on cultural, intellectual and economic history, domestic politics and foreign relations trace the complex and multi-faced process through which Japan has been transformed from an isolated agricultural society to an economic world power and model for other developing nations.