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A 3 page review of the book by Kenneth Henshall. The author of this paper asserts that this book is not the typical exploration of Japanese society that we have come to expect from the modern press. The book distinguishes itself from the vast majority of the work written on Japan and her culture, in fact, in that it delves not only into the mainstream of Japanese culture but also the marginal aspects of that culture. Included is an expose on issues such as homosexuality and patriarchal domination, and the various other factors which serve to marginalize certain components of Japanese society. No additional sources are listed.
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Kenneth Henshalls "Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream" is not the typical exploration of Japanese society that we have come to expect from the
modern press. The book distinguishes itself from the vast majority of the work written on Japan and her culture, in fact. Henshall (1999, X) writes in his preface
that the western perspective on Japan has been colored by: "prevailing images of Japan as
a quaint and exotic land. Postwar works continued a focus on differences between Japan and the west"
During the 1970s and 1980s, in particular, the literary emphasis was on explaining Japans phenomenal success by concentrating on the more immutable aspects of her culture (Henshall,
1999). Most of Japanese culture, in fact, came to be considered as something superior to that seen in the West. We came to regard Japanese culture as something
that was based in "harmony and homogeneity" (Henshall, 1999, X), as something that was void of the strife and conflict and mixed emotion we most often find in Western culture.
Just three decades ago, however, literature on Japan would take a different tactic. That tactic would be the demonstration that Japan was indeed a multifaceted culture, one which
was more characterized by diversity and conflict that by harmony and homogeneity. Henshalls expose, however, brings us to yet another chapter in the realities of Japanese culture. That
chapter reveals that indeed Japanese culture has many of the same problems and manifestations of Western culture but at the same time it has a uniqueness which is characterized by
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