Comparing cultures : readings on contemporary Japan for American writers / [edited by] Merry I. White, Sylvan Barnet. - Boston, MA : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995. - xix, 475 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes: Editors' Notes To Accompany Comparing Cultures (50 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking about culture -- Thinking about texts -- Growing up -- Courtship, love, and marriage -- Women's roles -- Growing older -- The meaning and practice of work -- Leisure and entertainment -- The cultural meaning of consumption -- Delinquency, crime, and punishment -- Notions of nation.

0312106203

94065173


Readers--Japan.
Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Rhetoric.--United States


Japan--Civilization--Problems, exercises, etc.

PE1130.J3 / C64 1995

808/.0427