Culture and Collective Behavior in Japan

Juro Teranishi ()
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Juro Teranishi: Hitotsubashi University

Chapter 8 in Culture and Institutions in the Economic Growth of Japan, 2020, pp 337-366 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to examine the origin of the so-called ‘collectivism of the Japanese’ in the context of the internal mental model of the Japanese. It is claimed that the collectivism of the Japanese is not directly related to the internalized culture historically nurtured in Japan, and that it is more closely related to the historical conditions after the Meiji Restoration, when the severe restrictions on the labor market were abolished under the condition of accumulated community-specific human capital. In this model, the so-called ‘collectivism of the Japanese’ is nothing but a stakeholder society to share the residual income within a small group. It must be noted that the stakeholder society born in this way has very little to do with the internalized view and the values nurtured historically through deep concern with others nearby, and is also quite different from the collective intentionality of the Occident developed under the influence of the concept of the public and humans.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55627-5_8

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