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Foreign Languages
On the Criticism of Takano Yotaro's 'Japanese Collectivism' as an illusion

Alireza Rezaee

Volume 18, Issue 8 , December 2018, , Pages 97-124

Abstract
    It has been long believed that the Japanese are typical collectivists whereas Americans are typical individualists. To examine the validity of this common view, Takano reviewed empirical studies that compared Japanese and Americans and found that the overwhelming majority of those studies had ...  Read More

Foreign Languages
On the Criticism of Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture

Alireza Rezaee

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2017, , Pages 255-274

Abstract
  This paper aims to discuss the background, purpose, and methodology of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict. It was written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information, in order to understand and predict the behavior ...  Read More