Japan Through the Looking Glass

Alan Macfarlane

ISBN 1861979525

ISBN 13 9781861979520

August 2007

Price £16.99

Hardback, 288 pp.

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Subject: Travel

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Our journey encompasses religion, ritual, martial arts, manners, eating, drinking, hot baths, geishas, family, home, singing, wrestling, dancing, performing, clans, education, aspiration, sexes, generations, race, crime, gangs, terror, war, kindness, cruelty, money, art, imperialism, emperor, countryside, city, politics, government, law and a language that varies according to whom you are speaking. Clear-sighted, persistent, affectionate, unsentimental and honest – Alan Macfarlane shows us Japan as it has never been seen before.

‘‘...an engaging and well-informed analysis of Japanese culture and society.’ ’
— The Independent

‘‘On his journey through Japanese society, he encounters subjects from the most public to the most intimate and uncovers a nation that is even more extraordinary than he first thought.’’
— Glasgow Herald