Nihonjinron is the Japanese term for Japanese national character, or the way the Japanese characterize themselves. Befu, a bilingual anthropologist who has studied Japan for 40 years, examines hundr
This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his "ecological theory" of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the Eurasian
According to Josef Kreiner of the U. of Bonn, this work is one of the most important of Japanese intellectual history. Japanese anthropologist Umesao presents 12 of his essays on comparative civilizat
