Nature of the Japanese State

'It is ambitious in the scale of its topic, informative in its generally meticulously researched content, challenging in its thought-provoking arguments and calls for a new focus within anthropology, and at times provocative in its rejection of cosy widespread assumptions and its sharp criticism of observations deemed to be inaccurate ... this is a book that leaves no room for complacency.' - Ken Henshall, Asian Studies Review

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Demystifying a discourse; Chapter 3 The bureaucratized self; Chapter 4 Japan’s government; Chapter 5 ::; Chapter 6 Japan’s Ministry of Education; Chapter 7 The rationality of moral education; Chapter 8 Conclusion;