Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family

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Paperback
1991
$53.16

Examines influential Japanese business families, describing the social and emotional lives of all members of the Japanese household and the conflict of tradition with the need for power, love, wealth, and emotional expression.

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Examines influential Japanese business families, describing the social and emotional lives of all members of the Japanese household and the conflict of tradition with the need for power, love, wealth, and emotional expression.

$53.16

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 27 Aug 1991
ISBN 10: 0801499755
ISBN 13: 9780801499753

Media Reviews

In an America of lonely careerists and fragmented families, do we have something to learn from the tightly knit Japanese? Or does Japanese culture confine singular people in a straitjacket? Hamabata . . . essentially answers 'yes' to both questions in Crested Kimono, a book with case studies as emotionally charged as Kabuki drama. -Los Angeles Times Book Review
This superb study of Japanese society portrays it as a balance between tradition and modernity, culture and person, and authority and emotion. Defying the bounds of traditional social science concepts that obliterate the individual, the book brings out 'real people' in situations where they will act and feel. A work of sociology that truly reads like a novel. -Virginia Quarterly Review