Japanese Way : Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs of the Japanese

by Takada, Noriko

• ISBN13: 9780844283777
• ISBN10: 0844283770
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

For All Students Ideal for a variety of courses, this valuable handbook helps students understand how people of today's Japan think, do business, and act in their daily lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Pronunciation and Romanization	xi
Abbreviations and contractions	1	(1)
Addresses and street names	2	(1)
Arts and crafts	3	(1)
Asking directions	3	(1)
Bathing and bathhouses	4	(2)
Body language and gestures	6	(1)
Borrowed words and acronyms	7	(2)
Bowing	9	(1)
Brand names and brand-name goods (burando-hin)	9	(1)
Business cards (meishi)	10	(1)
Calendar	11	(1)
Cherry blossoms and flower viewing	12	(1)
Compliments	13	(1)
Conversation	14	(1)
Crime and safety	15	(1)
Dating and marriage	16	(1)
Death, funerals, and mourning	17	(1)
Dialects	18	(1)
Dining out	19	(3)
Dinner invitations	22	(1)
Directness	23	(1)
Discussion and consensus	24	(1)
Dress	25	(1)
Drinking	26	(1)
Driving	27	(1)
Earthquakes	27	(1)
Education	28	(1)
English-language study	29	(1)
Family	30	(1)
The flag and the national anthem	31	(1)
Flowers and plants	31	(2)
Food and eating	33	(1)
Footwear	34	(1)
Foreigners	35	(1)
Gender roles	35	(1)
Geography	36	(1)
Gifts	37	(2)
Government	39	(1)
Hellos and goodbyes	40	(1)
Holidays and festivals	41	(6)
Honorific speech (keigo)	47	(1)
Hotels and inns	47	(2)
Housing and furnishings	49	(2)
Humor	51	(1)
The Imperial Family	52	(1)
Individuals and couples	53	(1)
Introductions and networking	53	(1)
Karaoke	54	(1)
Leisure (reja)	55	(1)
Letters, greeting cards, and postal services	55	(2)
Love and affection	57	(1)
Lucky and unlucky numbers	58	(1)
Male/Female speech	58	(1)
Money	59	(1)
Mt. Fuji	60	(1)
Music and dance	60	(1)
Myths, legends, and folklore	61	(1)
Names, titles, and forms of address	62	(1)
Numbers and counting	63	(1)
Oriental medicine	64	(1)
Pinball (pachinko)	64	(1)
Politeness and rudeness	65	(1)
Population	66	(1)
Privacy	67	(1)
Reading material	67	(1)
Religion	68	(2)
The seasons	70	(1)
Shopping	71	(1)
Shrines and temples	72	(1)
Signatures and seals	73	(1)
Social structure	73	(1)
Sports	74	(1)
Table etiquette	75	(1)
Telephones	76	(1)
Television/radio/movies	77	(1)
Thank-yous and regrets	78	(1)
Theater	79	(1)
Time and punctuality	80	(1)
Tipping and service charges	80	(1)
Toilets	80	(1)
Travel within Japan	81	(2)
Vending machines	83	(1)
Visiting private homes	83	(2)
Weights, measures, and sizes	85	(1)
Working hours	86	(1)
The written language	86	(1)
``Yes'' and ``no''	87	(2)
``You first''	89	(1)
Zoological calendar	89	(2)
Sources and related readings	91	(2)
Index	93