1. Human Nature in the Japanese Myths

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments X
4. Introduction XI
5. Part One: Moral Values and Sentiments
6. 1. Human Nature in the Japanese Myths 3
7. 2. The Monkey Memorial Service of Japanese Primatologists 29
8. 3. A Culture of Love and Hate 33
9. 4. Compensative Justice and Moral Investment among Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans 43
10. 5. Individual, Group and Seishin: Japan's Interned Cultural Debate 62
11. 6. The Relation of Guilt toward Parents to Achievement and Arranged Marriage among the Japanese 80
12. Part Two: Interaction, Communication, and Grouping
13. 7. An Ethnography of Dinner Entertainment in Japan 108
14. 8. Amae: A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality Structure 121
15. 9. "Male Chauvinism" as a Manifestation of Love in Marriage 130
16. 10. Language and Behavior in Japan: The Conceptualization of Personal Relations 142
17. 11. Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan 158
18. 12. Criteria of Group Formation 171
19. 13. Skiing Cross-Culturally 188
20. Part Three: Development and Socialization
21. 14. Maternal Care and Infant Behavior in Japan and America 201
22. 15. Who Sleeps by Whom? Parent-Child Involvement in Urban Japanese Families 247
23. 16. Ethics and Moral Precepts Taught in Schools of Japan and the United States 280
24. 17. Violence in the Home: Conflict between Two Principles— Maternal and Paternal 297
25. 18. "Spirituell Education" in aJapanese Bank 307
26. Part Four: Cultural Stress, Psychotherapies, and Resocialization
27. 19. Nonmedical Healing in Contemporary Japan: A Psychiatric Study 344
28. 20. Self-Reconstruction in Japanese Religious Psychotherapy 354
29. 21. Japanese Attitudes toward Mental Health and Mental Health Care 369
30. 22. Fear of Eye-to-Eye Confrontation among Neurotic Patients in Japan 379
31. 23. Naikan Therapy 388
32. References 399
33. Contributors 419
34. Index 421