This booklet explores the parable, so abused through the mass media, that the japanese are a gray, nameless mass of effective, obedient employees. The articles make clear a Japan open air officialdom, a full of life Japan of tumultuous and self sufficient inspiration, inefficient and aesthetic, pleasure-loving, competitive and wasteful, artistic and anti-authoritarian. The book's actually overseas members learn the position in sleek jap society of various rest and play actions, from ingesting to trip, soccer to karaoke, tattoos to rock fandom. They discover how issues that appear like play in a single context are lethal severe in one other, and the way the thrill and delight should be accomplished in unforeseen methods. additionally they draw realization to the significance of such actions in figuring out the deeper constitution and that means pervading all parts of the society during which they occur. This booklet may be of serious curiosity to scholars and students of jap experiences, Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural experiences.
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