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- Title Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes
- Author Ian Buruma
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 242
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, New York
- Date 1984
- ISBN 9780394537757 / 0394537750
- Library of Congress subjects National characteristics, Japanese, Popular culture - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 83025027
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.095
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. First American Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2. 242 Pages Indexed. There is a red remainder mark on the bottom page edges. Most Western commentary on the Japanese people focuses on their business practices or, more traditionally, on their code of manners and the reasons outsiders fail to grasp its imperatives. This book looks beyond these corporate and social behavioral sets to explore what the people wish and imagine themselves to be-and why. By examining the popular media-the films, television, plays, books, and comics-and other cultural institutions that shape and reflect the Japanese collective imagination, Ian Buruma reveals the important influence and interplay of sex roles and sexuality in all areas of life. As such, he offers insight into the rather raunchy, violent. and sometimes morbid side of the Japanese beyond the forms of delicacy with which we are most familiar. This book explains more about the Japanese than most Westerners…
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