 Relationships in Japanese SocietyEmiko Tsuyuki () and
Ichiro Yamaguchi
Chapter Chapter 16 in Phenomenology in a Co-creative Workplace, 2024, pp 181-197 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This Chapter presents the characteristics of human relationships in Japanese society, based on the key phrase You-You relationship mentioned in Part I. Notably, Japan is a high-context society that requires us to rely on context and make inferences. It is a society wherein using your imagination to guess is better than expressing yourself clearly in words. This is not a bad thing in itself; as such, not everything can be verbalized. The fact that we can understand each other through what is called A-Un no kokyū in Japanese without using words is a kind of physical knowledge, and it is also a function of human intelligence. However, there are times when we are overly concerned with what the other person is saying, when we suppress our words and actions to fulfill the other person’s expectations, and when we suppress our own true feelings. This reflects a negative aspect of relationships in Japanese society. Bullying and harassment in the workplace can be understood in terms of such characteristics of relationships in Japanese society. This chapter elucidates phenomena occurring in the workplace within a high-context society from the perspective of phenomenology. Date: 2024 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-97-2192-4_16 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-2192-4_16 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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