Social Psychology of Modern Japan

Focussing on the four main phases of modernizing and modernized Japan beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to today¿s postmodern society, this groundbreaking work uses quantitative and qualitative data to show that the processes of modernization brought a coexistence of generational variation imbued with tensions, conflicts and synergies, that, taken together, provide the key to understanding the structure and dynamism of contemporary Japan.