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Japan' s Internationalization: Becoming a Global Citizen

Japan' s Internationalization: Becoming a Global Citizen Japan' s Internationalization: Becoming a Global Citizen* HIDEICHIRO NAKANO Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan Introduction THE WORLD IN THE FINAL QUARTER of the 20th century has been witnessing rapid and massive dissolution of the previously held system of hierarchy in practically all spheres of social life. Whatever else it might have been, the pre-1960 world organization was characterized by an almost monopolistic supremacy of the United States (Pax Americana), with relative decline of Western Europe as a whole and increasing military challenge from the Soviet Union. Today, challenges are also presented by Japan, China, OPEC, the Non-Aligned countries, as well as by newly industrializing coun- tries, in both economic and political terms. In the sociocultural sphere, a significant shift has been taking place from "industrialism" and material ad- vancement to emphasis on spontaneity, affectionate ties between individuals, or in general, what Ron Inglehart termed "post material values" (1977). These trends have generally been perceived as constituting a crisis situation at least inasmuch as they have entailed falling apart of a more or less established "definition of the situation," regardless of whether that definition was willing- ly or unwillingly accepted. Moreover, there is no evidence of a new international http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1984 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854284X00089
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Japan' s Internationalization: Becoming a Global Citizen* HIDEICHIRO NAKANO Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan Introduction THE WORLD IN THE FINAL QUARTER of the 20th century has been witnessing rapid and massive dissolution of the previously held system of hierarchy in practically all spheres of social life. Whatever else it might have been, the pre-1960 world organization was characterized by an almost monopolistic supremacy of the United States (Pax Americana), with relative decline of Western Europe as a whole and increasing military challenge from the Soviet Union. Today, challenges are also presented by Japan, China, OPEC, the Non-Aligned countries, as well as by newly industrializing coun- tries, in both economic and political terms. In the sociocultural sphere, a significant shift has been taking place from "industrialism" and material ad- vancement to emphasis on spontaneity, affectionate ties between individuals, or in general, what Ron Inglehart termed "post material values" (1977). These trends have generally been perceived as constituting a crisis situation at least inasmuch as they have entailed falling apart of a more or less established "definition of the situation," regardless of whether that definition was willing- ly or unwillingly accepted. Moreover, there is no evidence of a new international

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1984

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