Making Sense of Nihonjinron  

Oleh:

Sugimoto, Yoshio

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Thesis Eleven vol. 57 no. 1 (Mei 1999), page 81–96.
Topik: cultural relativism; ethnocentrism; globalization; identity; nationalism
Fulltext: 81TE571.pdf (203.04KB)

Isi artikel

This article attempts to examine Nihonjinron, the popular essentialist genre in Japan, which purports to analyse Japan's quintessence and cultural core by using three concepts –nationality, ethnicity and culture –synonymously. The focus of the paper will be placed on: (1) the widespread political bases of Nihonjinron and its internal divisions; (2) its changing features in the face of globalization; (3) the possible productive uses of Nihonjinron at both conceptual and theoretical levels; and (4) the dilemma of inter-societal and intra-societal cultural relativism, which the Nihonjinron debate has highlighted. The paper presents an outline of an inductive, pluralistic, multicultural model of analysis as a possible alternative.

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