Paper's abstract

Kazuhiko Yatabe, Globalization from a Japanese point of view
In the contemporary Japanese society, globalization does not merge with modernization, nor does it rhyme with standardization. It is quite the opposite : it made Japanese society swing from a universe seen as a whole into a multi-sided world. The author first recalls the characteristics of 1950' till 70' Japan, when trying to reformulate its cultural and collective identity in order to distinguish itself from the Western countries will competing with them on the economic level. He afterwards stress the internal transformations the Japanese society had to face since the 80' and states how the conditions surface in society and identity allowing some parts of the population to start resonating with the globalization of culture.

Key Words : Japan, westernalization, J-culture
t. 47, 2003 : p. 85-98

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