LAST ITEM HELD MATCHING THIS TITLE STATED:

London: Viking, 1993. 600 g; XII, 276 pages, indexed. Handling marks to p front edge of the text block, and the front fold over flap of the dust jacket has been clipped at both top and bottom. Otherwise there is no damage worth reporting. The author considers the corporate setting, gender roles, affluence, advertising, quality of life, obligation, politics, and crime, education and sport. "Being Japanese means always being on someone's debt for something, which in turn means of always having to say sorry or thank you to a parent, a boss, an emperor, a teacher, a friend, a victim of your stupidity, a lender, a relative, just about anyone you come across. The Japanese child is born with obligations it began accumulating while still in the womb and one of the trickiest tasks of growing up is learning the spread and depth of the various obligations -- which include an obligation to make sure the your own good name is never dragged through the mud as a result of your own or anyone else's actions -- and learning how to meet all these debts diligently and elegantly." -- page 166. First Edition 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Hardcover. Very Good/Good -- Price Clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Japan -- Culture.