Soul to Soul
Ian Buruma, 19 February 1987
The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness
by Peter Dale.
Croom Helm, 233 pp., £25, September 1987,0 7099 0899 7 Show More
by Peter Dale.
Croom Helm, 233 pp., £25, September 1987,
“... as the Nihonjinron, literally the ‘theory of Japaneseness’. Nihonjinron is the subject of Peter Dale’s book, the style of which is marred somewhat by his own almost Nihonjinronish fondness for psycho-socio-anthropological jargon. He has interesting things to say, however. The intellectual quest for the essence of Japaneseness is a huge industry ... ”