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.

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