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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd; New edition edition (1 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 4770028008
  • ISBN-13: 978-4770028006
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm
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1.0 out of 5 stars terrible, 13 Sep 2009
By R. Mayne "turning Japanese" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Anatomy of Dependence (Paperback)
Doi's book is a largly discredited, semi-academic, anecdotal nihonjin-ron classic that what written in the 1970s by the author after suffering culture shock in the US.

It's a terrible book full of linguistic jiggery-pokery and factual inacuracies (see Dale, P 1986 the myth of Japanese uniqueness, Mouer and sugimoto 1986, 1982, Kubota 1999) that has sadly been highly influence due to it's popularity with 'Japanologists'.

In that 'classic' text Doi claims that 'Amae' is uniquely Japanese emotion (if you're not shocked by that claim read it again). He claims though that 'somthing like amae' exists in the west but is only apparent 'if one looks at the phenoomena with Japanese eyes'(1981:169). Like (supposed) Japanese seasons Doi suggests that Japanese Amae is more clearly defined.

Dale notes that passages in the English translation were omitted because "the logic is so circuitious that, were it included, Doi's whole programme, with it's semantic juggling, would have been exposed to withering ridicule." (1986: 132)

It's also noticeable that Doi claims the term 'Amae' doesn't exist in western languages therefore it's a uniquely Japanese concept yet Doi (roughly) knew 2 Western languages so how he came to make this claim is a mystery.

Embracing defeat is much better as is Buruma's 'inventing Japan'. Dale's book is a must read as is Sugimoto's (2003) An introduction to Japanese society.
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