Josai University Educational Corporation

International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science (JICPAS)

Review of Japanese Culture and Society

JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Review of Japanese Culture and Society Vol.VII December 1995 (Encounters with the Other:Philosophical Prespectives from Japan and the West)

Foreword
Mizuta Noriko i
Introduction
Tani Toru iii
The Retrieval of Democratic Ethos
Richard J. Bernstein 1
Orikuchi Shinobu and the Song of Life: The Ancient Japanese View of Communication
Takeda Sumio 13
The Possibility of Critique in a Multicultural World
Mizutani Masahiko 21
Community and the Law of Return: Between Ethics and the Question of Being
Takahashi Tetsuya 27
The Criticism of Science and its Assimilation in Modern Japanese Though: Phenomenology and Science in the Work of Watsuji Tetsuro
Sato Yasukuni 40
Fiction:
Thorn
Mori Mari 48

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