Constructs for Understanding Japan

by Yoshio Sugimoto (Editor), Ross E. Mouer (Editor)

First published in 1989. This volume has emerged from the International Colloquium on the Comparative Study of Japanese Society. Held at Noosa Heads in Queensland from 29 January to 6 February 1982, the colloquium brought together participants from eight countries to discuss about thirty papers. The participants came with a common sense of dissatisfaction with the 'group model' or 'consensus-oriented theories' as a means of understanding Japanese society. The papers and discussion focused on alternative approaches for conceptualizing Japanese society and on methodological issues in the comparative study of Japanese society.

Hardcover

First published January 6, 1989

About the author

Yoshio Sugimoto is a writer and sociologist professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He grew up in Kyoto where he graduated from the Kyoto University with a BA in Law and Politics.

From there he worked as a staff writer at the Mainichi Shinbun, which is a national level Japanese newspaper. He got his PhD in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.