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Kosaku Yoshino, John Lie etc

Japan’s past and present

In Japan, the study of nihonjinron became popular after the Second World War in an attempt to explain the uniqueness of the country s culture and character. Some of the essays in this volume deal with these issues and explore aspects of the Japanese quest for a national identity. Today Japan is one of the world s largest economies, but it is facing enormous challenges on a social, cultural, financial and political level.  These challenges are highlighted and analysed in this book through themes and topics from Japanese history: identity, architecture, religion, manga, Christianity in Japan, the Samurais and many other subjects. 

Editors

Kurt Almqvist is CEO at the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

Yukiko Duke is a writer and literary critic based in Sweden. Of Swedish-Japanese origin, she is the author of “Mikaku – den japanska kokboken”, which was nominated for the August Prize, and several other, critically acclaimed books on Japan.

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