国際学術文化振興センターでは、日本人と日本文化の国際的分析の場として英文誌「Review of Japanese Culture and Society」を発行しています。本誌は、日本の文化や社会についての国際認識を高めることを意図して刊行され、相互理解の促進と文化論の方法の見直しをめざしています。

Discourse on Decadence (1946): A Penetrating Look at the Chaos of Japan amidst the Ruins of War

Ango Sakaguchi 1

Excursion through a Hamlet for Lunatics (1946): A Satirical Comment on the Japanese Provincialism

Minoru Kida 6

Japan as a Hybrid Culture (1955): A Discussion of the Japanese Manner of Introducing, Imitating and Assimilating Elements of Foreign Cultures

Shoichi Kato 15

Japan as Viewed from an Eco-historical Perspective(1957): An Argument Revealing the Dynamics of the Japanese Culture

Tadao Umesao 25

A Reconsideration of the Culture of Shame (1964): A Reevaluation of Ruth Benedict’s description of Japanese Society as a Culture of Shame

Keiichi Sakuta 32

Japanese History from a Personal Viewpoint (1972): A Comment on the Japanese Sense of “What is Right” as perceived at the Times of Unrest as the Age of Civil Wars Meiji Restoration

Ryotaro Shiba 40

The Importance of the Peer Group in Japanese Society (1976): An Inquiry into What the “Horizontal Society” of Japan Offers in Terms of Collectivism and Solidarity

Toshinao Yoneyama 46

The Structure of Seken-Tei (Appearances) (1977): An Analysis of Concepts that Shape the Consciousness and Behavior of the Japanese People

Tadashi Inoue 51

Characteristics of Theories of Japanese Culture (1977): The Key to Japanese Creativity Which is Highly Hospitable to Outside Stimuli

Hidetoshi Kato 62

The Hollow Center in the Mythology of “Kojiki” (1980): An Analysis of the Original Meaning of Space in Japanese Myth

Hayao Kawai 72

Changing perspectives on the Family in Post-War Japan(1983): Problems of the Family and Home: Change and Disintegration

Masanao Kano 78

“Tokoyo” (The Eternal World)? The Archetype of the Japanese World View (1983): The Japanese View of Death and the Desire for the Other World

Kenichi Tanigawa 85

The Vertical Structure of Japanese Society as a Utopia (1985): A Critique of Nakane Chie’s Theory of Vertical Society

Hiromi Hata and Wendy Smith 92

Time Table? A Short Story (1975)

Taeko Tomioka 110