Since the 90 japan knows deep societal transformations ..
But Japan is still Japan ...
And this study remains today one of the most accessible French texts regarding to imagine, structuring and functioning of social ties in that country and in this exceedingly singular culture.
From a methodological point of view this work is absolutely stunning!
One is between the historical methodology and the sociological method ...
It is a rigorous delight ... every word is weighed more .. it's very well written and thus it is as rewarding as pleasant ...
The author mobilizes hundreds of questionnaires completed by Japanese prisoners of World War II.
However this work leads to a thorough review of the Japanese company the following angles:
The sense of propriety hierarchy .. .. the pleasures and enjoyment ... of virtue and education ... (the list goes in related branches and subjects)
All these issues are extremely detailed and sophisticated ways the author absolutely renders the cultural context from which emerge the "written word"
This particular work on documents (analysis of questionnaires) can not shame any ethnologist ..
An absolute must and a delight for those who love and want to discover japan from within ...
For example, if we consider the absolute, radical and functional of the Japanese surrender after the speech of the emperor, and although it's impressive and incomprehensible without an analysis of mental structures of this civilization.
Since 1995 the Japanese company has changed but there is a very strong heritage and logic that endure and that historical evidence is timely testify wood that was used to shape the Japanese army as the one who explains confusing workings view frightening contemporary Japan and obviously are not on the agenda in this meticulously analytical text.
