Duty and Sentiment: How Culture Shapes Thinking and Behavior in Japan and the West

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Preface

Contents

About the Author

Chapter 1. Why are Koshien high school baseball games all televised?

Why do people watch live professional baseball games?

Why did "Tiger Mask" send gifts?

What makes strong sumo wrestlers stand apart?

Why were Mozart, Beethoven, and Liszt able to produce excellent music?

Can music change people's behavior?

Chapter 2. Do mathematical theories have national characteristics?

How does the assimilation of immigrants affect the economy?

Will bon odori dance disappear amid globalization?: Ethnic Japanese in Sao Paulo and Jews in New York

The global contribution of a prizefighter in the Showa era

Why do diplomats in New York park illegally?

What good would it do if Japanese anime was diffused across the world?

What was it in "Oshin" that won the hearts and minds of people overseas?

Do children's values reflect their parents' values?

What changes if Fukuzawa Yukichi is shown on a 10,000-yen bill?

Chapter 3. Why is it a secret to successful business management that the business owner treats job seekers to gourmet food?

How is the French mentality relevant to the arrest of Carlos Ghosn?

What does Adam Smith have in common with an old lollipop man?

What comes out from mixing the rich and the poor?

What can we learn from the life of Kazuo Ishiguro about government finance?

Municipalities that fared well in the tax-deductible donation scheme by not offering thank-you gifts

How can Takarasiennes always maintain their modesty, fairness, and graceful beauty?-the reason for the unwaning popularity of the Takarazuka Revue Company

How does ninjo (human sentiments) enrich the market economy?

Chapter 4. What will become of pupils in a class with a female teacher?

Women: are they born as women or do they become women?

Women and men, what are the differences?

Are women born non-competitive or do they become non-competitive?

Are women born to dislike math or do they grow to dislike it?　

Equal employment opportunities for men and women, how does it affect the difference in height between a husband and a wife?

Chapter 5. The reason why working husband and housekeeping wife should quarrel

Why do people seek marriage?

What comes to the minds of smokers at the sight of their children?　

Having a working mother, does it determine a man's choice of a woman he marries?

Does an arrival of a daughter change her father's world view?　

What changes do grandchildren engender in their grandparents?

Chapter 6. What came out of the spread of COVID-19?

Effects of school closure on parents' working styles

"The life" of Haruma Miura: "the human take on economics" personified

The postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games and ninjo the humanity

Life and money, which is more important?

The coronavirus pandemic and healthcare workers' mental states

Chapter 7. Concluding Chapter How can community be rational?

Epilogue