Psychological Structure of the Japanese: Japan Academic Library

Author: (Japanese) Tomokazu Ito, translated by Yan Xiaomei
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Publishing Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book examines people's daily lives and colloquial language from a comparative cultural perspective, analyzes Japanese vocabulary, and lists how Japanese people behave and interact in daily situations. It pays great attention to often overlooked words, actions, and even psychological aspects, summarizing the psychological characteristics of dependency in Japanese people. Based on this characteristic, the author establishes a unique psychological analysis method and theory tailored for Japanese individuals. The book explains various puzzling phenomena in modern society in an easy-to-understand language. This is the author's first attempt to apply the concept of dependency to analyze various phenomena, so for him, it was like gently tapping with a small hammer, which is one of the book's distinctive features. Additionally, while the theories discussed are not entirely flawed, there are still many areas that need to be supplemented regarding the completeness of the dependency concept itself, which is undeniable. As a result, the book has been widely loved by readers while also receiving criticism and even being misunderstood in some aspects.